. The book of months . i//!d ■[S■J::;J0:^^ ^^^ ?vfe •^f-—- ^m ■■■■Ip. ~V ■ 1:0^!^ ^ m A^. /i/.oy THE BOOK OF MONTHS or the bursting of spring instead of the clasp ofmnter. All I know is that before long I shallfind that the pause is over, and on that day Ishall be sitting in fallen darkness, idly fingeringin the palpable dusk the broken fragments ofmyself that lie round me, or even in this Novem-ber I shall go out into the fields, and find thatinstead of the icy hand of winter gripping them,it will be spring instead. For the winter will bepassed, and the flowers appear on the earth, themusic o
. The book of months . i//!d ■[S■J::;J0:^^ ^^^ ?vfe •^f-—- ^m ■■■■Ip. ~V ■ 1:0^!^ ^ m A^. /i/.oy THE BOOK OF MONTHS or the bursting of spring instead of the clasp ofmnter. All I know is that before long I shallfind that the pause is over, and on that day Ishall be sitting in fallen darkness, idly fingeringin the palpable dusk the broken fragments ofmyself that lie round me, or even in this Novem-ber I shall go out into the fields, and find thatinstead of the icy hand of winter gripping them,it will be spring instead. For the winter will bepassed, and the flowers appear on the earth, themusic of singing birds is come. Arise, my love,my fair one, and come away. Yes, it is even so, and I, who a few nights agoonly determined to keep aloof from all possi-bility of this, preferring to stifle and drown thebest of my nature, for fear of being thrownout of gear as regards the second best, am ledcaptive, glorying in the chains which, pleaseGod, I shall never be able to break. How wit-less and impotent is man, how futile and un-reasonable all his reasonings when love like dawn280 js^
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