It's beginning to look a lot like springtime! Imagery of "Spring"

"The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush
The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush
With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling."

Throughout the poem "Spring" Hopkins uses images of pear tress and racing lambs to create a beautiful picture of springtime. From the description of songbirds' eggs to beautiful vegetation growth, the images conjure up a picture that is more than just pretty; It almost seems perfect, not unlike the garden of Eden. In fact I believe the images described in this poem are a form of praise to God for His creation. It compares the imagery of this new, fresh season to that of a world that was perfect in its innocence before sin tainted and ruined it. The lambs racing are symbolic of people being the children of God and the poem even references Jesus as the "maid's child". The way he depicts spring allows the reader to create an image of this happy and bright scene that is paralleled to the joy he feels for God and all He has created for us. Also I wonder if the peartree described represents the tempting fruit tree in the garden of Eden story. Even though it has a negative connotation in the Bible, in Hopkins poem there is no betrayal of God's word, therefore the tree can still be seen as beautiful and wonderful just like the rest of the images that appear in the poem.