These pools that, though in forests, still reflect <br />The total sky almost without defect, <br />And like the flowers beside them, chill and shiver, <br />Will like the flowers beside them soon be gone, <br />And yet not out by any brook or river, <br />But up by roots to bring dark foliage on. <br /> <br />The trees that have it in their pent-up buds <br />To darken nature and be summer woods - <br />Let them think twice before they use their powers <br />To blot out and drink up and sweep away <br />These flowery waters and these watery flowers <br />From snow that melted only yesterday.<br /><br />Robert Frost<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-pools/
