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From a London garden

Chapter 35: RETURNING
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A collected series of lyrical poems moves between urban and rural imagery to reflect on love, mortality, time, memory, and moral growth. The poet uses concise, imagistic language and varied meters to meditate on human experience: longing and loss, pride and humility, the rhythms of city life and quiet country scenes, the passage of days and seasons, death and consolation. Voices range from personal confession to philosophical observation, with elegiac tones, religious reflection, and celebration of steadfastness. Recurring motifs—light and shadow, dawn and evening, gardens and streets—bind individual pieces into a contemplative portrait of inner life amid modern surroundings.

RETURNING

Spring pipes an airy measure
That only he can play:
I caught its echo on the hill
This morning while the world was still
And the dreamy hollows began to fill
With a laughing rumour of day.
The hours of sleep are over,
The wintry night is past;
Spring pipes his joyance far and near
And hope awakes in hearts that hear,
As the bud and leaf and bloom o’ the year
Shall wake to his calling at last.
Adown through greening valleys,
Up over hill and wold—
Oh, youth and joy and love are met
In every note his lips beget!
And the world shall hear and follow him yet,
And forget it is growing old.