Spring in the Valley

The Expert

Spring in the Valley written by James Edward Hervey MacDonald

Review:Raven:Christian Socialism 1848-1854 (J.A.D.)

In The Canadian Forum, January 1921, p. 118

The tawny hill is tinged with green;
The budding and unbloomed apple-trees
Weave against it a braiding of rose-purple mist,
Blue-dimmed by the level drifted veiling of a bonfire's smoke;
The steady trilling of frogs voices the valley.

And in my heart are tingeings of waiting and longing.
What buddings? What startings of growth?
What burnings of rubbish veiling alike things done and things to be?

Come needed rains of the spirit;
Beat down the drifting smoke.
Spread wider the freshened tingeing of green.
While my soul like a robin thankfully sings in the shower.
J. E. H. Macdonald.