Spring around the Corner

Let us remember Spring will come again
To the scorched, blackened woods, where the wounded trees
Wait with their old wise patience for the heavenly rain,
Sure of the sky: sure of the sea to send its healing breeze,
Sure of the sun. And even as to these
Surely the Spring..........................


Charlotte Mary Mew (15 November 1869 - 24 March 1928) whose work spans the cusp between Victorian poetry and Modernism.