Spring Morning

Ah, through the open door     Is there an almond tree     Aflame with blossom!         - Let us fight no more.     Among the pink and blue     Of the sky and the almond flowers     A sparrow flutters.         - We have come through,     It is really spring! - See,     When he thinks himself alone     How he bullies the flowers.         - Ah, you and me     How happy we'll be! - See him     He clouts the tufts of flowers     In his impudence.         - But, did you dream     It would be so bitter? Never mind     It is finished, the spring is here.     And we're going to be summer-happy      And summer-kind.     We have died, we have slain and been slain,     We are not our old selves any more.     I feel new and eager      To start again.     It is gorgeous to live and forget.     And to feel quite new.     See the bird in the flowers? - he's making      A rare to-do!     He thinks the whole blue sky     Is much less than the bit of blue egg     He's got in his nest - we'll be happy      You and I, I and you.     With nothing to fight any more -     In each other, at least.     See, how gorgeous the world is      Outside the door!      SAN GAUDENZIO