Quote#Nature
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn
Quote byAlice Meynell · 1847–1922
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Preludes (1875), "In February", p. 47.
English (original)
Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
— Alice Meynell
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