<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341509" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When Runnels Began To Leap And Sing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When runnels began to leap and sing,<br>And daffodil sheaths to blow,<br>Then out of the thicket came blue-eyed Spring,<br>And laughed at the melting snow.<br>``It is time, old Winter, you went,'' she said,<br>And flitted across the plain,<br>With an iris scarf around her head,<br>And diamonded with rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the hawthorn put off her bridal veil,<br>And the nightingale's nocturn died,<br>Then Summer came forth with her milking-pail,<br>And hunted the Spring, and cried,<br>``It is time you went; you have had your share,''<br>And she carolled a love-song sweet,<br>With eglantine ravelled about her hair,<br>And butter-cup dust on her feet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the pears swelled juicy, the apples sweet,<br>And thatched was the new-ricked hay,<br>And August was bronzing the stripling wheat,<br>Then Summer besought to stay.<br>But Autumn came from the red-roofed farm,<br>And ``'Tis time that you went,'' replied,<br>With an amber sheaf on her nut-brown arm,<br>And her sickle athwart her side.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When the farmer railed at the hireling slut,<br>And fingered his fatted beeves,<br>And Autumn groped for the last stray nut<br>In the drift of her littered leaves,<br>``It is time you went from the lifeless land,''<br>Bawled Winter, then whistled weird,<br>With a log for his hearth in his chilblained hand,<br>And sleet in his grizzled beard.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><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=341509" data-title="When Runnels Began To Leap And Sing de Alfred Austin" data-description="When runnels began to leap and sing, And daffodil sheaths to blow, Then out of the thicket came blue-eyed Spring, And laughed at the melting snow. ``It is time, old Winter, you went,'' she said, And flitted across the plain, With an iris scarf aro..."></div> </div> </div>

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