“Loveliest
of trees, the cherry now
Is
hung with bloom along the bough,
And
stands about the woodland ride
Wearing
white for Eastertide.” — English classical scholar-poet A.E.
Housman (1859-1936), “Loveliest of Trees,” in A Shropshire Lad (1896)
In
the Northeast, where I live, the season and scenes hailed by Housman are here.
The image accompanying this post--which, actually, was taken two years ago in Overpeck
Park, not far from where I live in Bergen County, NJ--gives a good idea of what
I’m talking about.
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