2003
Spring Song
Composed by 
Paul Salerni
Paul Salerni Text by 
John Updike
John Updike Flora Song Collection
"Spring Song" is the second song of Paul Salerni's Flora, which sets five poems of John Updike.
Text
Spring Song
by John Updike
The fiddlehead ferns down by our pond
stand like the stems of violins
the worms are playing beneath the moss.
Last autumn’s leaves are pierced by shoots
that turn from sickly-pale to green.
All growth’s a slave, and rot is boss.
–John Updike: Collected Poems 1953-1993, p. 178
Audio
“Spring Song” (from “Flora”)
Debra Field (soprano)0:39