The Spring

 (After Rilke)


Spring has returned! Everything has returned!
The earth, just like a schoolgirl, memorizes
Poems, so many poems.
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 Look, she has learned
So many famous poems, she has earned so many prizes!

Teacher was strict.
 We delighted in the white
Of the old man's beard, bright like the snow's:
Now we may ask which names are wrong, or right
For "blue," for "apple," for "ripe.
" She knows, she knows!

Lucky earth, let out of school, now you must play
Hide-and-seek with all the children every day:
You must hide that we may seek you: we will! We will!

The happiest child will hold you.
 She knows all the things
You taught her: the word for "hope," and for "believe,"
Are still upon her tongue.
 She sings and sings and sings.

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