It is not enough that yearly, down this hill,
April
Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) American poet

Poem (1920-03), “Spring,” ll. 16-18

First published in The Chapbook, Vol. 2, No. 13 (1920-07). Collected in Second April (1921). A handwritten draft was dated 1920-03-21.

Graham Greene's Babbling April (1925) was named after these lines.