Spring: Mercurial Seed

A treatise on regenerating life Old Man Winter's residual cultivated by Spring's mid-wife Into fertile cavity seed with precision did knife In earth's dark bosom; cauldron of strife With jolting, painful movements rife Helios incubated the embryonic pod Unction sparked from Zeus's rod Jupiter's vital streams embalmed ingrown clod With growing pressure swelling kernel did prod Fledgling shoots pushed through birth canal onto sod