THE AWAKENING YEAR 



" The cuckoo-throb, the heart-beat of the Spring ; 

 The rose-bud's blush that leaves it as it grows 

 Into the full-eyed, fair, unblushing rose ; 



The furtive flickering streams to light reborn 

 9 Midairs newfadged and valorous lusts of morn, 

 While all the daughters of the daybreak sing." 



DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, 

 House of Life. 



