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What the Crocus said. 11 I knew that when the months came round

My leaves would break the sheltering ground,

Would leap like light from out the earth

In all the glory of new birth.

I knew that thus from life to death,

From death to life, this living breath

Of bud and bloom, of leaf and flower,

Eternal sprang from hour to hour.

Yet while thus sentient in my shroud,

Above me, moving in a cloud,

These restless hearts cried in the bright

And high noonday, "God, give us light!"