<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=368494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Winter Walk</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">WE never had believed, I wis, <br>At primrose time when west winds stole <br>Like thoughts of youth across the soul, <br>In such an altered time as this, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When if one little flower did peep <br>Up through the brown and sullen grass, <br>We should just look on it, and pass <br>As if we saw it in our sleep. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Feeling as sure as that this ray <br>Which cottage children call the sun, <br>Colors the pale clouds one by one,-- <br>Our touch would make it drop to clay. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">We never could have looked, in prime <br>Of April, or when July trees <br>Shook full-leaved in the evening bree <br>Upon the face of this pale time, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still, soft, familiar; shining bleak <br>On naked branches, sodden ground, <br>Yet shining--as if one had found <br>A smile upon a dead friend's cheek, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or old friend, lost for years, had strange <br>In altered mien come sudden back, <br>Confronting us with our great lack-- <br>Till loss seemed far less sad than change. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet though, alas! Hope did not see <br>This winter skeleton through full leaves, <br>Out of all bareness Faith perceives <br>Possible life in field and tree. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">In bough and trunk the sap will move, <br>And the mould break o'er springing flowers; <br>Nature revives with all her powers, <br>But only nature;--never love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, listlessly with linkèd hands <br>Both Faith and Hope glide soft away; <br>While in long shadows, cool and gray, <br>The sun sets o'er the barren lands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Dinah+Maria+Mulock+Craik">Dinah Maria Mulock Craik</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=368494" data-title="A Winter Walk de Dinah Maria Mulock Craik" data-description="WE never had believed, I wis, At primrose time when west winds stole Like thoughts of youth across the soul, In such an altered time as this, When if one little flower did peep Up through the brown and sullen grass, We should just look on i..."></div> </div> </div>

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