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Meeting the Easter Bunny
On Easter morn at early dawn
before the cocks were crowing
I met a bob-tail bunnykin
and asked where he was going.
"Tis in the house and out the house
a-tispy, tipsy-toeing,
Tis round the house and 'bout the house
a-lighlty I am going."
"But what is that of every hue
you carry in your basket?"
"Tis eggs of gold and eggs of blue;
I wonder that you ask it.
"Tis chocolate eggs and bonbon eggs
and eggs of red and gray,
For every child in every house
on bonny Easter day."
He perked his ears and winked his eye
and twitched his little nose;
He shook his tail -- what tail he had --
and stood up on his toes.
"I must be gone before the sun;
the east is growing gray;
Tis almost time for bells to chime." --
So he hippety-hopped away.
by Rowena Bennett, 1930
On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer.
- Douglas Horton
The cross is a symbol of His crucifixion and Resurrection.
Hot cross buns, a cake or biscuit eaten by many during this season, are also, symbols of these events. The lamb is another symbol associated with Jesus. He is often referred to, in scriptures, as the, 'Lamb of God', who sacrificed his life for all mankind's eternal life.
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