'Tis the World's Winter
from Nothing Will Die (1830)
'Tis the world's winter;
Autumn and summer
Are gone long ago.
Earth is dry to the centre,
But spring, a new comer,
A spring rich and strange,
Shall make the winds blow
Round and round.
Through and through,
Here and there,
Till the air
And the ground
Shall be filled with life anew.
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Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
from Through the Year with the Poets: February
Fernweh, "Late Winter - Small's Copse", 2014. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
This positive poem, in anticipation of springs promise of a new life, spring never fails, inspired a prayer poem of sorts George.
ReplyDeleteDELIVER US FROM EVIL
Long awaiting frigid still we must lament
Sadly in the winter of our discontent
The question being will there be or not be
An end to this ne'er before seen winter ...
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