“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”

—  Gerard Manley Hopkins

" The May Magnificat http://www.bartleby.com/122/18.html", stanza 4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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