• Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers, And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers; A poet's face asleep in this grey morn. Now in the midst of the old world forlorn A mystic child is set in these still hours. I keep this time, even before the flowers, Sacred to all the young and the unborn.

    Alice Meynell: Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn,
 Unseen, this colourless sky of folded showers,
 And folded winds; no blossom in the bowers;
 A poet's face asleep in this grey morn.
 Now in the midst of the old world forlorn
 A mystic child is set in these still hours.
 I keep this time, even before the flowers,
 Sacred to all the young and the unborn.
    Alice Meynell (1913). “Poems”