After the Curse

Lent.  Passover.  Easter.  The First Communion.  Crime.  Punishment.  Redemption.  Trials and Tribulations.  

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.

Now of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.

And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.

("Loveliest of Trees," A.E. Houseman)

It is a silly poem, I know.  But it goes with the image.  

The first full moon of Spring is Thursday.