April

From The Birmingham Age-Herald, March 22, 1913.
 By Berton Braley.
 

 Fashioned of tearfulness, tenderness, cheerfulness;
     Changeable, shy, as the ways of a maid;
 Spring’s sweetest miracle, lovely and lyrical,
     Showers and flowers, and sunshine and shade,
 Making the merry land fragrant as fairy land,
     Thrilling the heart with a wonderment new,
 Laughing and serious, moonlit, mysterious,
     April’s a month that was molded for you!