<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119271" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brook Song: To the Spring</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O beauty! vision of forgotten gladness!<br>Fulfillment of a dream that ne'er betrays!<br>O miracle of hope, and balm of sadness!<br>Creative ecstasy and fount of praise!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">...........................................</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lay upon the ground and gave no token,<br>I hid my face mid sodden leaves and sere,<br>My languid pulses chill, my spirit broken,—<br>I knew not, O divine one! you were near;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For snows and frosts of winter, new-departed,<br>Still held my will in thrall and weighed me down;<br>And I forgot—forlorn and heavy-hearted—<br>Your promise, goddess of the violet crown!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But soft as music in remembrance sighing,<br>You fanned me with your wooing breath, and I,<br>Who shed no tears when lone I seemed and dying,<br>Wept at your touch, and knew I should not die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now by my banks are tender blossoms blowing:<br>In fragrant loveliness they smile on me,—<br>But I must hasten to the river, knowing<br>The river leadeth ever to the sea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">High over me the budding branches quiver<br>With songs that swell in happy harmony;<br>But sweeter is the murmur of the river,—<br>The river that leads ever to the sea!</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>Mine and Thine</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=119271" data-title="Brook Song: To the Spring de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="O beauty! vision of forgotten gladness!/Fulfillment of a dream that ne'er betrays!/O miracle of hope, and balm of sadness!/Creative ecstasy and fount of praise!/.........................................../I lay upon the ground and gave no token,/I..."></div> </div> </div>

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