White trees-dogwood,
Purple trees-redbud,
Magnify beauty
As only Tennessee could.
Yellow jonquil-slips
Colorful tulip-cups
Enhance Tennessee
As spring interrupts.
The chill of the ice-white
The winter wind-long
Gives way in Tennessee
To a palette of song.
Oaks in squirrel-scurry
And birdcall-ring
Announce that there's nothing
Like Tennessee in the spring.
by E. Marshall Evans
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