Happy Spring! (a blessing for your garden)

O SWEET SPONTANEOUS

by e.e. cummings


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O sweet spontaneous

earth how often have

the

doting


fingers of

prurient philosophers pinched

and

poked


thee

, has the naughty thumb

of science prodded

thy


beauty . how

often have religions taken

thee upon their scraggy knees

squeezing and


buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive

gods

(but

true


to the incomparable

couch of death thy

rhythmic

lover


thou answerest


them only with


spring)