WHEN ever'thing's a-goin' like she's got-a-goin' now, -- The maple-sap a-drippin', and the buds on ever' bough A-sort o' reachin' up'ards all a-trimblin', ever' one, Like 'bout a million Brownie-fists a-shakin' at the sun! The children wants their shoes off 'fore their breakfast, and the Spring Is here so good-and-plenty that the old hen has to sing! -- When things is goin' @3thisaway,@1 w'y, that's the sign, you know, That ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! Old Winter's up and dusted, with his dratted frost and snow -- The ice is out the crick ag'in, the freeze is out the ground, And you'll see faces thawin' too ef you'll jes' look around! -- The bluebird's landin' home ag'in, and glad to git the chance, 'Cause here's where he belongs at, that's a settled circumstance! And him and mister robin now's a-chunin' fer the show. Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! The sun ain't jes' p'tendin' @3now!@1 -- The ba'm is in the breeze -- The trees'll soon be green as grass, and grass as green as trees; The buds is all jes' @3eechin',@1 and the dogwood down the run Is bound to bu'st out laughin' 'fore another week is done; The bees is wakin', gap'y-like, and fumblin' fer their buzz, A-thinkin' ever-wakefuler, of other days that wuz, -- When all the land wuz orchard-blooms and clover, don't you know. . . . Oh, ever'thing's a-goin' like we like to see her go! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STATUE AND THE BUST by ROBERT BROWNING APRIL'S LAMBS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE PRESENT CRISIS by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL THE LAST GOODBYE by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON THE FLOWERS OF THE FOREST by ALISON RUTHERFORD OF MAN'S MORTALITY by SIMON WASTELL |