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April, the honor of the woods
And of the months,
April, the gentle hope
Of fruits that beneath the cotton
Of the bud
Nourish their young infancy;
April, the honor of green meadows,
Yellow, dark blue,
Which with a motley humor
Enamel with a thousand flowers
Of colors
Their dappled adornment;
April, the honor of the sighs
Of the zephyrs,
Which, beneath the wind of their wing,
Still set in the forests
Sweet nets
To ravish Flora the beautiful;
April, it is your gentle hand
Which from the breast
Of nature releases
A harvest of scents
And of flowers,
Perfuming the air and the earth.
April, the greening honor,
Flourishing
On the blond tresses
Of my lady, and of her breast
Always full
Of a thousand and a thousand little flowers;
April, the grace and the laughter
Of Cypris,
The scent and the sweet breath;
April, the perfume of the gods
Who from the heavens
Smell the odor of the plain.
It is you, courteous and noble,
Who from exile
Bring back these passing ones,
These swallows that go
And that are
The messengers of spring.
The hawthorn and the eglantine,
And the thyme,
The carnation, the lily and the roses,
In this beautiful season,
In abundance,
Show their blooming robes.
The gentle little nightingale,
So sweet,
Carves beneath the shade
A thousand babbling trills,
Fidgeting
To the sweet song of his warbling.
It is at your happy return
That love
Breathes with gentle breaths
A fire smoldering and covered
That winter
Hid within our veins.
You see in this new season
The beautiful swarm
Of these plundering bees
Flitting from flower to flower
For the scent
That they stash in their little thighs.
May will boast its coolness,
Its ripe fruits
And its fecund dew,
The manna and the sweet sugar,
The russet honey,
With which its grace is watered.
But I give my voice
To this month,
Which takes the surname of her
Who from the foamy sea
Saw germinate
Her maternal birth.
Rémy Belleau
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