Spring Song

"Spring Song" is the second song of Paul Salerni's Flora, which sets five poems of John Updike.

Date: 2003Composer: Paul SalerniText: John UpdikeSong Collection: Flora

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Spring Song
by John Updike

The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond
stand like the stems of violins
the worms are playing beneath the moss.

Last autumn’s leaves are pierced by shoots
that turn from sickly-pale to green.
All growth’s a slave, and rot is boss.

–John Updike: Collected Poems 1953-1993, p. 178

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