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The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||
153
ARRESTED SPRING.
The Spring has been here! thus much ye can tell.
Behold these half-unfolded leaves that lie
Upon the path, beneath an ashen sky.
Within these boughs, transfixed as by a spell,
Songless the song-birds sit; there is a smell,
Of Spring about, but that sweet breath shall die,
As streams the west wind freed sink stagnantly,
Because, last night, a blight on all things fell.
Behold these half-unfolded leaves that lie
Upon the path, beneath an ashen sky.
Within these boughs, transfixed as by a spell,
Songless the song-birds sit; there is a smell,
Of Spring about, but that sweet breath shall die,
As streams the west wind freed sink stagnantly,
Because, last night, a blight on all things fell.
What will ye hope, then, in this desolate place?
Will ye entreat the Winter to make good
His promise; and with cold and lustrous grace,
Change to a chrysolite the tender bud?
Not so, all energy that change could bring
Lies mute,—arrested, with the arrested Spring.
Will ye entreat the Winter to make good
His promise; and with cold and lustrous grace,
Change to a chrysolite the tender bud?
Not so, all energy that change could bring
Lies mute,—arrested, with the arrested Spring.
The Collected Poems of Philip Bourke Marston | ||