“For winter’s rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten.
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1837-1909.
Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations. Published by Little, Brown and Company 1955.