The crab tree blooms

                  
           
           
The crab tree blooms and white the flowers,            
cold Mayday wind and cold the rain,            
cowslips shelter in the lea,primrose too,            
Malus their name,from the east they come            
from whence our sun this Mayday morn.
            
Far across the seas to welcome Spring            
this cold May Day when cold the rain.           
cowslips shelter in the lea,primrose too.      
Nettles no more crowding hedgerows,    
the drone of bees ceased to silence.    
            
Three bees searching,only three,no buzz            
or  stings as when a boy,no docks today,            
their cooling leaves quiet in the lane,
broad and green,no longer needed.
Still crab trees bloom and primrose too.