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Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day, / When the April Fool met the Queen of May; / She had roguish eyes and golden hair, / And they were a mischief-making pair. / They planned the funniest kind of a joke / On the poor, long-suffering mortal folk; / And a few mysterious words he said, / His fool's cap close to her flower-crowned head. / Then he laughed till he made his cap-bells ring, / At the thought of the topsy-turvy Spring. / "Tis a fair exchange," he said, with a wink -- / "It is! " she said, and what do you think? / The flowers that should bloom in the month of May / Every one of them came on an April day! / And they looked for April showers in vain, / But all through May it did nothing but rain!