Spring
and Fall
(to a young child)
1 Margaret, are you grieving
2 Over Goldengrove unleaving?
3 Leaves, like the things
of man, you
4 With your fresh thoughts
care for, can
you?
5 Ah! as the heart grows
older
6 It will come
to such sights colder
7 By and by, nor spare a
sigh
8 Though worlds of wanwood
leafmeal lie;
9 And yet you wíll
weep and know why.
10 Now no matter, child,
the name:
11 Sorrow's springs are
the same.
12 Nor mouth had, no nor
mind, expressed
13 What héart héard
of, ghóst guéssed:
14 It is the blight man
was born for,
15 It is Margaret you mourn
for.
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