Spring and Fall

Spring and Fall

to a young child

Márgarét, áre you gríeving

Over Goldengrove unleaving?

Leáves like the things of man, you

With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?

Ah! ás the heart grows older

It will come to such sights colder

By and by, nor spare a sigh

Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;

And yet you wíll weep and know why.

Now no matter, child, the name:

Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.

Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed

What heart heard of, ghost guessed:

It ís the blight man was born for,

It is Margaret you mourn for.  

               -Gerard Manley Hopkins              
                        

This arrangement by Natalie Merchant convey's the poignancy this poem contains.



More of Natalie's work and work can be found here, including mention of her song "Wonder" which is both on the soundtrack for and the inspiration of the movie "Wonder".