Whan that the cruelest month ...

[Dave Monroe]

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote
The droghte of Marche hath perced to the roote ...

http://www.bartleby.com/40/0101.html
http://www.luminarium.org/medlit/gp.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Prologue
http://pages.towson.edu/duncan/chaucer/index.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/CT-prolog-para.html

April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers....

http://www.bartleby.com/201/1.html
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/790.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Waste_Land
http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/eliot01.html
http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/011894_harp_ITH.html
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