Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/"There is a budding Morrow in Midnight"

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4553997Poems — "There is a budding Morrow in Midnight"Christina Georgina Rossetti

"THERE IS A BUDDING MORROW IN MIDNIGHT."
WINTRY boughs against a wintry sky;
Yet the sky is partly blue
    And the clouds are partly bright:—
Who can tell but sap is mounting high
    Out of sight,
Ready to burst through?

Winter is the mother-nurse of Spring,
  Lovely for her daughter's sake,
    Not unlovely for her own:
For a future buds in everything;
    Grown, or blown,
Or about to break.