MARCH

By Algernon Charles Swinburne

Hail, happy March, whose foot on earth

Rings as the blast of martial mirth

When trumpets fire men's hearts for fray.

No race of wild things winged or finned

May match the might that wings thy wind

Through air and sea, through scud and spray.

Strong joy and thou were powers twin-born

Of tempest and the towering morn.