SPRING, pretty Spring, what treasure do you bring to me? <br />Green grass and buttercups, cherry-bloom and may? <br />Sunshine to be glad with me, and little birds to sing to me? <br />Warm nests to call me along the woodland way? <br /> <br />Spring, happy Spring, what wonder will you do for me? <br />Light the tulip lanterns, and set the furze a-fire? <br />Fill your sky with sails of cloud on waves of living blue for me? <br />Show me green cornfields and budding of the briar? <br /> <br />Spring, darling Spring, my days will not return to me, <br />You who see them fleeting, you, all time above, <br />You who move the whole world's heart, ah move one heart to turn to me, <br />--Bring me a lover, and teach me how to love!<br /><br />Edith Nesbit<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-maiden-s-prayer/
