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A Backward Spring Lyrics by Thomas Hardy

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses

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The trees are afraid to put forth buds,
And there is timidity in the grass;
The plots lie gray where gouged by spuds,
        And whether next week will pass
Free of sly sour winds is the fret of each bush
        Of barberry waiting to bloom.
Yet the snowdrop's face betrays no gloom,
And the primrose pants in its heedless push,
Though the myrtle asks if it's worth the fight
        This year with frost and rime
        To venture one more time
On delicate leaves and buttons of white
From the selfsame bough as at last year's prime,
And never to ruminate on or remember
What happened to it in mid-December.
April 1917.
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Thomas Hardy

Thomas Hardy

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