<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348197" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Return of the Year</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again the warm bare earth, the noon<br>That hangs upon her healing scars,<br>The midnight round, the great red moon,<br>The mother with her brood of stars,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The mist-rack and the wakening rain<br>Blown soft in many a forest way,<br>The yellowing elm-trees, and again<br>The blood-root in its sheath of gray.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The vesper-sparrow's song, the stress<br>Of yearning notes that gush and stream,<br>The lyric joy, the tenderness,<br>And once again the dream! the dream!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A touch of far-off joy and power,<br>A something it is life to learn,<br>Comes back to earth, and one short hour<br>The glamours of the gods return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This life's old mood and cult of care<br>Falls smitten by an older truth,<br>And the gray world wins back to her<br>The rapture of her vanished youth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dead thoughts revive, and he that heeds<br>Shall hear, as by a spirit led,<br>A song among the golden reeds:<br>'The gods are vanished but not dead!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For one short hour, unseen yet near,<br>They haunt us, a forgotten mood,<br>A glory upon mead and mere,<br>A magic in the leafless wood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At morning we shall catch the glow<br>Of Dian's quiver on the hill,<br>And somewhere in the glades I know<br>That Pan is at his piping still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+Lampman">Archibald Lampman</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=348197" data-title="The Return of the Year de Archibald Lampman" data-description="Again the warm bare earth, the noon That hangs upon her healing scars, The midnight round, the great red moon, The mother with her brood of stars, The mist-rack and the wakening rain Blown soft in many a forest way, The yellowing elm-trees, and a..."></div> </div> </div>

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