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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