The Poetry Corner

Spring and Fall: to a young child

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Mrgart, re you greving Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? h! s the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By and by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you wll weep and know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Srrow's sprngs re the same. Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed What heart heard of, ghost guessed: It is the blight man was born for, It is Margaret you mourn for.