GEORGE ELIOT (Mary Ann Evans) 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! 

This English novelist, poet, journalist and translator was one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. Her novels include The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch.

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