by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)
Spring and Fall Matches original text
Language: English
to a young child Margaret, are you grieving, Over Goldengrove unleaving? Leaves, like the things of man, you With your fresh thoughts care for, can you? Ah! as the heart grows older It will come to such sights colder By & by, nor spare a sigh Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie; And yet you will weep & know why. Now no matter, child, the name: Sorrow's springs are 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.
Composition:
- Set to music by Aaron Alon , "Spring and Fall", 2003, first performed 2003 [ medium voice, cello, and piano ]
Text Authorship:
- by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889), "Spring and Fall", first published 1918
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This text was added to the website: 2011-01-08
Line count: 16
Word count: 98