A Late Spring

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Title:     A Late Spring
Author: W. M. MacKeracher [More Titles by MacKeracher]

Twelve weeks had passed--how slowly!--day by day,
Since formal, dull Sir Calendar had bowed
Old Winter from the scene, and cried, "Make way!
The Spring, the Spring!" and still a sullen cloud
Obscured the sky, and the north wind blew chill;
When lo, one morn the miracle began;
A Presence brooded over vale and hill,
And through all life a quickening impulse ran.

Long-hushed, forgotten melodies awoke
Within my soul; the rapture of the boy
Refilled me; o'er my arid being broke
A brimming tide of elemental joy
From primal deeps; and all my happy springs
Came back to me--I was the peer of kings!

[The end]
W. M. MacKeracher's poem: Late Spring

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