If I might see another Spring <br />I'd not plant summer flowers and wait: <br />I'd have my crocuses at once <br />My leafless pink mezereons, <br />My chill-veined snow-drops, choicer yet <br />My white or azure violet, <br />Leaf-nested primrose; anything <br />To blow at once, not late. <br /> <br /> <br />If I might see another Spring <br />I'd listen to the daylight birds <br />That build their nests and pair and sing, <br />Nor wait for mateless nightingale; <br />I'd listen to the lusty herds, <br />The ewes with lambs as white as snow, <br />I'd find out music in the hail <br />And all the winds that blow. <br /> <br /> <br />If I might see another Spring - <br />Oh stinging comment on my past <br />That all my past results in ‘if’ - <br />If I might see another Spring <br />I'd laugh today, today is brief <br />I would not wait for anything: <br />I'd use today that cannot last, <br />Be glad today and sing.<br /><br />Christina Georgina Rossetti<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/another-spring-2/
