Miramur, Maxima de Nihilil Nasciture Historia... ( I Marvel, from Nothing is Born a Mighty Tale )

Squirrel pups ran up to my porch
     skittering, chittering, rolling, gamboling
and extolling the wondrous day
     "The crocuses spoke to us
and told us winter no longer holds us!
     The snow will no more enfold us
and each day will be warmer than the one past"
    And i had to laugh at being freed from the icy grasp
Let yesterday be the last gasp of cold we feel
   Can it be real, has another year come full circle?
Herculean has been the winter, records shattered
     along with mighty trees reduced to splinters
Time for all creatures, great and small
     to crawl out from the burrows they went into
The same can be said for you and me
     as we stretch our limbs and stand blinking
at the wondrous light of Spring;
   once more to revel in the simple things
and the simple joys they bring...