it is it
small singing bird
singing on tree
the no-tree sound
no-sound voice
the bird upon tree utters
tree
utters meaning of the wind
the wind voice
voice of grass
the grass wild and flower
wild
words flower of words
of green the leaf green
they leaf speak
they speak that through
dew and dew
rifts and of rifts
sunshine of the sunshine
dark the hawthorn dark
touched hawthorn with touched breadths
with breadths open of bud
open the bud
the air
the air colour
the colour of daffodil
the daffodil:
that is that
bough from bough he sings
he rises
wind rushing over the young grass
young refulgent grass
fall refulgent the golden rays
golden rays of sun
the sun a minute only
minute only clouds
and hedge is hedge dark
is the dark bloom
the bloom of gorse
the gorse shut is like a book
a book it is there
is there
few hours few
the open meadow
the meadow bare
is but bare
the shaped heart celandine
shaped leaves celandine
will leaves come
will come
in accustomed place
gleam sunshine of the
sunshine
first the colour
first of colour
wind among rushes
them among and them
they bow and bow
rise and rise
dark the pine dark
that pine looks that
as now in as summer
in it summer lifts it and
lifts
swings and swings
arching the trail
bramble of it
bramble dries and dries
crumbles and crumbles earth
the sparrow’s hedge
feathers sparrow’s feathers fluttered
are as fluttered
as sings he sings on bush the bush
[Some more mutated Jefferies. This time, another version of part of his essay Hours of Spring.]
