SWAYING TREE TOPS 



the buds cling to the tree tops, it cer- 

 tainly is not found during the winter, 

 but possibly later in the spring, or in 

 the summer, or autumn. 



There are two harbingers of 

 spring. One is a girl newly gowned, 

 with a bunch of violets at her waist. 

 The other is the note of the robin. 

 They come close together. Some- 

 times the girl with the violets is first 

 again it is the robin. This year 

 they were just six days apart, and 

 the robin beat the girl. The first 

 note of the robin! How fresh and 

 new it is! It sounds like the first 

 strawberries taste. After weeks of 

 shut windows, and furnace fires, and 

 house air, to hear the robin call out- 

 side is an experience from which 

 words run away. 



