The theme in a single sentence: All beginnings start off beautiful, but, given time, everything will eventually be ruined.
Everyone thinks of new life when describing spring. So the author begins with this image-eggs, blooms, lambs- all things beginning life. Everything makes the reader feel... peachy. And then immediately we see the downfall. He uses the Garden of Eden as an example, which was beautiful and perfect in the beginning. It couldn't last; "have, get, before it cloy".
The author ends with a short prayer. He wants to save the children, who are now innocent and naive, but sin will ruin them without divine intervention.
This poem that seemed so joyous in the beginning really turned out to be a bummer. Spring is going to end too, with summer.
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