Spring and All

I

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waiting to be

and it was

Spring and All,

stiffening, and obdurate, and

in a different

virgin

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are definite, and dense and it was

Spring and All.

II

through the forest

of the valley, the

orange blossom and the

scent of flowers

who wait in season,

and the thick

of it, the blue of it,

the air stirring, ask,

a thing of which is shown,

the young black trees, and of the

sky lowering through the

green,

where are the

birds. And

pursue them that they may come,

green/color/earth,

turn round and through the

trees again, flying

back to the orange blossom of spring.

• William Carlos Williams