Home Thoughts from Abroad - a poem for April

Robert Browning’s Home Thoughts from Abroad seems a good poem for 1 April. I first loved this poem when I read it at my prep school. I must have been about 10 at the time. Of course, global warming has changed the timing of Spring growth.

Home Thoughts, From Abroad

Oh, to be in England
Now that April’s there,
And whoever wakes in England
Sees, some morning, unaware,
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough
In England