Agatha
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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She wanders in the April woods,
That glisten with ______ fallen shower;
She leans her face against the buds,
______ stops, she stoops, she plucks a flower.
She feels ______ ferment of the hour:
She broodeth when the ringdove broods;
The sun and flying clouds have power
Upon her ______ and changing moods.
She cannot think she is alone,
______ over her senses warmly steal
Floods of unrest she ______ to own
And almost dreads to feel.
Among the ______ woodlands wide
Anew she roams, no more alone;
The ______ she feared is at her side,
Spring's blushing secret ______ is known.
The primrose and its mates have flown,
______ thrush's ringing note hath died;
But glancing eye and ______ tone
Fall on her from her god, her guide.
______ knows not, asks not, what the goal,
She only ______ she moves towards bliss,
And yields her pure unquestioning ______
To touch and fondling kiss.
And still she haunts ______ woodland ways,
Though all fond fancy finds there now
______ mind of spring or summer days,
Are sodden trunk ______ songless bough.
The past sits widowed on her brow,
______ she wends with wintry gaze,
To walls that house ______ hollow vow,
To hearth where love hath ceased to blaze;
Watches the clammy twilight wane,
With grief too fixed ______ woe or tear;
And, with her forehead 'gainst the pane,
Envies the dying year.