1955
In Just-spring
Composed by 
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento Text by 
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings Songs About Spring Song Collection
"In Just-spring" is the third song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings. The original title of the poem is "in Just-".
Please note that the text of the poem is posted in "lyrics" form, and not in the typographical layout of the original publication.
The poem "in Just-" was first published in Five Poems, in the periodical The Dial, Vol. 68 No. 5, May 1920.
Text
in Just-
by e. e. cummings
in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee —
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and wee
and bettyandisbel come dancing
from hop-scotch and jump-rope and
it’s
spring
and
the
goat-footed
balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee
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