WELCOME THE SHADOWS

Welcome the shadows; where they blackest are

Burns through the bright supernal hour;

From blindness of wide dark looks out the star,

From all death's night the April flower.

For beauty and for gladness of the days

Bring but the meed of trust;

The April grass looks up from barren ways,

The daisy from the dust.

When of this flurry thou shalt have thy fill,