And....?
The sesasons send their ruins as they go,
For in spring the narciss shows its head
Nor withers till the rose has flamed to red,
And in autumn purple violets blow,
And the slim crocus stirs the winter snow;
Wherefore yon leafless trees will bloom again
And this gray land grow green with summer rain
And send up cowslips for some boy to mow.
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea
Flows at our heels,and gloom of sunless night
Covers the days which never more return?
Ambition,love and all the thoughts that burn
We all lose too soon,and only find delight
In withered husks of some dead memory.
---Wilde.
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