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By
Akindman
“Isn’t it
appropriate that the month of the tax begins with April Fool’s Day and ends
with cries of “May Day!”?” ~ Unknown
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Last year we focused on the history of May Day and this
year we will look at some quotes, lyrics, poems and a little of this and that –
we hope you enjoy!
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“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the
pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said.
The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next
lover.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, May
Day
May Day (May
1st) is celebrated in many places around the world. The traditions and stories
surrounding May Day vary from place to place. There is, however, one thing that
is similar in most celebrations – the use of Flowers!
One of the
most popularly known May Day traditions is to hang a basket full of spring
flowers and/or other small gifts on a neighbor’s doorknob. The trick is you
don’t want the neighbor to see you! If you get caught, you are supposed to get
a kiss.
"The world's favorite
season is the spring.
All things seem possible
in May."
- Edwin Way Teale
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"By the time one is
eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May
flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is
serene. The gardener is usually dead, of
course."
- Henry Mitchell, The Essential Earthman
"'Tis like the birthday
of the world,
When earth was born in
bloom;
The light is made of many
dyes,
The air is all perfume:
There's crimson buds, and
white and blue,
The very rainbow showers
Have turned to blossoms
where they fell,
And sown the earth with
flowers."
- Thomas Hood
"You are as welcome as
the flowers in May."
- Charles Macklin
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"The sun was warm but
the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an
April day.
When the sun is out and the
wind is still,
You're one month on in the
middle of May.
But if you so much as dare
to speak,
a cloud come over the sunlit
arch,
And wind comes off a frozen
peak,
And you're two months back
in the middle of March."
- Robert Frost
"The month of May was
come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit;
for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise
every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in
lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all
lovers courage, that lusty month of May."
- Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
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"What is so sweet and
dear
As a prosperous morn in May,
The confident prime of the
day,
And the dauntless youth of
the year,
When nothing that asks for
bliss,
Asking aright, is denied,
And half of the world a
bridegroom is,
And half of the world a
bride?"
- William Watson, Ode in May, 1880
"Spring - an experience
in immortality."
- Henry D. Thoreau
"A little Madness in
the Spring
Is wholesome even for the
King."
- Emily Dickinson
"When April steps aside
for May,
Like diamonds all the
rain-drops glisten;
Fresh violets open every
day:
To some new bird each hour
we listen."
- Lucy Larcom
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“It's spring fever.... You
don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart
ache, you want it so!”
- Mark Twain
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"Spring is God's way of
saying, 'One more time!' "
- Robert Orben
"Also known as May Eve,
May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the
flowering of life. The Goddess manifests
as the May Queen and Flora. The God
emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green.
The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being
the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a
festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight."
- Selena Fox, Beltane: Celebrating the Seasons
"Poetry is the silence
and speech between a wet struggling root of a flower and a sunlit blossom of
that flower."
- Carl Sandburg
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"All furnished, all in
arms;
All plum'd like estridges
that with the wind
Bated like eagles having
lately bathed;
Glittering in golden coats
like images;
As full of spirit as the
month of May
And gorgeous as the sun at
midsummer;
Wanton as youthful goats,
wild as young bulls."
- William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth,
Part I
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"For the May Day is the
great day,
Sung along the old straight
track.
And those who ancient lines
did ley
Will heed this song that
calls them back...
Pass the cup, and pass the
Lady,
And pass the plate to all
who hunger,
Pass the wit of ancient
wisdom,
Pass the cup of crimson
wonder."
- Jethro Tull, Cup of Wonder
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