One Spring / Eda Lou Walton

from Hill Songs:

One Spring

One spring I lost completely,
Giving it to you.
Only myself,
Who died,
Knew.      

One spring I lost completely.
Now each spring is two —
The wild sweet spring
I lost,
And the new.

~~
Eda Lou Walton (1894-1961)
from Poetry, May 1920

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

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