Wild honey from various thyme By Michael Field [i.e. K. H. Bradley and E. E. Cooper] |
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ISRAEL'S WRESTLING
Lo, of a sudden spring is in our lands,Troubling dim mortals; happy those she lays
To rest back in their dreams again or gaze
And ponder on her and the wild commands
She issues hither, thither, as she stands
At vantage, and the universe obeys.
I rise reluctant and with wise delays....
A knot of snowdrops wrestled from my hand,
And I am taught, as Israel of the angel
He braved, how it enfeebles to contend—
Drawn onward, threaded by the spring's own spell,
At once to life's immeasurable end:
While, unsuspected of my fall, again
I take my place, quiet 'mid pondering men.
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