This Wearing of the Green

St. Patrick’s Day always reminds me of a poem I memorized in Mrs. McEwan’s fifth grade class called “Wearing of the Green” by Aileen Fisher:

It ought to come in April,
or, better yet, in May
when everything is green as green-
I mean St. Patrick’s Day.

With still a week of winter
this wearing of the green
seems rather out of season –
it’s rushing things, I mean.

But maybe March is better
when all is done and said:
St. Patrick brings a promise,
a four-leaf-clover promise,
a green-all-over promise
of springtime just ahead!

Only in my head, the last stanza rhymes “when all is said and done” with “of springtime just begun.” Makes more sense when you live in California, though around here the whole poem is less applicable because things are so green by this time of year. Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!

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