Ontario Readers Third Book, The

<h2><SPAN name="Apple" id="Apple"></SPAN>AN APPLE ORCHARD IN THE SPRING</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span>Have you seen an apple orchard in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring?<br/></span> <span>An English apple orchard in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i1">When the spreading trees are hoary<br/></span> <span class="i1">With their wealth of promised glory,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And the mavis sings its story,<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Have you plucked the apple blossoms in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring?<br/></span> <span>And caught their subtle odours in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i1">Pink buds pouting at the light,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Crumpled petals baby white<br/></span> <span class="i1">Just to touch them a delight&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>Have you walked beneath the blossoms in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring?<br/></span> <span>Beneath the apple blossoms in the spring?<br/></span> <span class="i1">When the pink cascades are falling,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And the silver brooklets brawling,<br/></span> <span class="i1">And the cuckoo bird soft calling,<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span>If you have not, then you know not, in the spring,<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring,<br/></span> <span>Half the colour, beauty, wonder of the spring,<br/></span> <span class="i1">No sweet sight can I remember<br/></span> <span class="i1">Half so precious, half so tender,<br/></span> <span class="i1">As the apple blossoms render,<br/></span> <span class="i4">In the spring.<br/></span></div> </div> <p class="citation"><span class="smcap">William Martin</span></p> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />