In Just-spring

"In Just-spring" is the third song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings. The original title of the poem is "in Just-".

Please note that the text of the poem is posted in "lyrics" form, and not in the typographical layout of the original publication.

The poem "in Just-" was first published in Five Poems, in the periodical The Dial, Vol. 68 No. 5, May 1920.

Date: 1955Composer: Dominick ArgentoText: E. E. CummingsSong Collection: Songs About Spring

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in Just-
by e. e. cummings

in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman

whistles far and wee —

and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring

when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing

from hop-scotch and jump-rope and

it’s
spring
and
the

goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

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