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.