<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Easter</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know the Summer fell asleep<br>Long weary months ago;<br>Heaped high above her grave I saw<br>The heavy winter snow;<br>Say, sparrow, then, what word you bring;<br>Is it her requiem you sing?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The meadow lark is mute, the wren<br>Forgets his late abode,<br>No throstle answering fluteth near,<br>Yet never prelude flowed<br>From ivied bosk or verdant slope<br>More brimming with delight and hope!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I, listening, seem to see the blooms<br>That were whilom so dear,<br>And voices loved and silent long<br>I, listening, seem to hear;<br>And longings in my breast confer,<br>And sweet, prophetic pulses stir.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Thou lonely one," they seem to say,<br>"Lost Summer shall return;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wreathed in her shadowy tresses shall<br>The roses blissful burn;<br>Wan lilies at her feet shall lie,<br>And wind-flowers on her bosom sigh.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">"Here, from this rough and lowly bed,<br>The little celandine<br>Shall lift her sunny glances to<br>The balmy eglantine;<br>And flags shall flaunt by yonder lake,<br>And fair Narcissus there awake."<br>I know the Summer fell asleep</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long weary months ago;<br>But ah! all is not lost, poor heart,<br>That's laid beneath the snow;<br>There wait, grown cold to care and strife,<br>Things costliest, dying into life:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All changes, but Life ceases not<br>With the suspended breath;<br>There is no bourne to Being, and<br>No permanence in Death;<br>Time flows to an eternal sea,<br>Space widens to Infinity!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Poems</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=118840" data-title="Easter de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="I know the Summer fell asleep/Long weary months ago;/Heaped high above her grave I saw/The heavy winter snow;/Say, sparrow, then, what word you bring;/Is it her requiem you sing?/The meadow lark is mute, the wren/Forgets his late abode,/No throstl..."></div> </div> </div>

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