1955
Spring is like a perhaps hand
Composed by 
Dominick Argento
Dominick Argento Text by 
E. E. Cummings
E. E. Cummings Songs About Spring Song Collection
"Spring is like a perhaps hand" is the second song of Dominick Argento's Songs About Spring cycle, which sets five poems of e. e. cummings.
"Spring is like a perhaps hand" can be found in cummings's 1925 volume &[AND].
Text
Spring is like a perhaps hand
by e. e. cummings
Spring is like a perhaps hand
(which comes carefully
out of Nowhere)arranging
a window,into which people look(while
people stare
arranging and changing placing
carefully there a strange
thing and a known thing here)and
changing everything carefully
spring is like a perhaps
Hand in a window
(carefully to
and fro moving New and
Old things,while
people stare carefully
moving a perhaps
fraction of flower here placing
an inch of air there)and
without breaking anything.
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