IT is but a little while ago: <br />The elm-leaves have scarcely begun to drop away; <br />The sunbeams strike the elm-trunk just where they struck that day-- <br />Yet all seems to have happened long ago. <br /> <br />And the year rolleth round, slow, slow: <br />Autumn will fade to winter and winter melt in spring, <br />New life return again to every living thing. <br />Soon, this will have happened long ago. <br /> <br />The bonnie wee flowers will blow; <br />The trees will re-clothe themselves, the birds sing out amain,-- <br />But never, never, never will the world look again <br />As it looked before this happened--long ago!<br /><br />Dinah Maria Mulock Craik<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/one-summer-morning-2/
