The Late Singer + 

Here it is spring again + 

and I still a young man! + 

I am late at my singing. + 

The sparrow with the black rain on his breast + 

has been at his cadenzas for two weeks past: + 

What is it that is dragging at my heart? + 

The grass by the back door + 

is stiff with sap. + 

The old maples are opening + 

their branches of brown and yellow moth-flowers. + 

A moon hangs in the blue + 

in the early afternoons over the marshes. + 

I am late at my singing. + 