Counting the Months
ARMOUR, RICHARD
COUNTING THE MONTHS The United States will explode its most powerful bomb in the South Pacific next spring.--News item. How many months till spring? We do not reckon Them as we did. No longer...
...It goes this way: five, four, three, two, one--bang...
...No longer does spring beckon With promises of skies of blue and fields Of green, of birds, and of a sun that yields A warmth withheld all winter...
...Richard Armour...
...Nowadays, New things in store, we count in other ways...
...Have you the hang...
Vol. 39 • January 1956 • No. 2