GEORGE ELIOT 1819-80

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SWEET SPRINGTIME

It was in the prime

Of the sweet springtime

In the linnet's throat

Trembled the love note,

And the love-stirred air

Thrilled the blossoms there.

Little shadows danced,

Each a tiny elf

Happy in large light

And the thinnest self. 

It was but a minute

In a far-off spring,

But each gentle thing,

Sweetly wooing linnet,

Soft thrilled hawthorn tree,

Happy shadowy elf,

With the thinnest self,

Live on still in me.

It was in the prime

Of the past springtime! 

George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann or Marian Evans. She was an English novelist, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian age. Her novels included The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.

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