Spring On The Alban Hills

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O'er the Campagna it is dim warm weather;
  The Spring comes with a full heart silently,
  And many thoughts; a faint flash of the sea
Divides two mists; straight falls the falling feather.

With wild Spring meanings hill and plain together
  Grow pale, or just flush with a dust of flowers.
  Rome in the ages, dimmed with all her towers,
Floats in the midst, a little cloud at tether.

I fain would put my hands about thy face,
  Thou with thy thoughts, who art another Spring,
  And draw thee to me like a mournful child.

Thou lookest on me from another place;
  I touch not this day's secret, nor the thing
  That in the silence makes thy sweet eyes wild.

© Alice Meynell