When the orchard's bloom Is sent aloft en masse On the breezes of April With its beckoning call I scatter the embers Of Ostara's blaze Which died with the winter But roars in my spirit still Deities awoken in the circle of spring By a phallic triumph at the womb of Beltane Commence a grand feasting To an era of warmth With the birth of the sun And the bountiful season At the shrinking of shadows At the lengthening of days With the green on the boughs reappearing By the silvery dew A call resounds from the horizon Heralding in an upward arc A decree towards the west For all of man to hear "Begone, frost and gloom! I bring growth and light Rich and plentiful May your harvests be." Commence a grand feasting To an era of warmth With the birth of the sun And the bountiful season Deities awoken in the circle of spring By a phallic triumph at the womb of Beltane