Natalie Merchant - Spring and fall to a young child
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NATALIE MERCHANT - SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD - Written for Gerald Manley
Hopkins 1880 poem
FMargaret,C are you grieving
COver golden grFove unleaving? AmBy and by
FLeaves, like the thiCngs of man, you
CWith your fresh thoughts caFre for, can you? Am
FAh! as the heCart grows older
CIt will come to such sigFhts colder
AmBy and by, nor spCare a sigh, bFy and by
FThough worlds of waCnwood leafmeal lCie;
And yet you will weFep and know wAmhy.
Now no maCtter, child, the name:
SorFrows' springs are all the same. They're all the sAmame.
FNor mouth had, nCo nor mind, exprCessed
What heart heFard of, ghost gueAmssed:
FIt is the blight mCan was born for,
CIt is Margaret Fthat you mourn for. Am