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Louis Untermeyer, ed. (1885–1977). Modern British Poetry. 1920.

William H. Davies1871–1940

Days Too Short

WHEN primroses are out in Spring,

And small, blue violets come between;

When merry birds sing on boughs green,

And rills, as soon as born, must sing;

When butterflies will make side-leaps,

As though escaped from Nature’s hand

Ere perfect quite; and bees will stand

Upon their heads in fragrant deeps;

When small clouds are so silvery white

Each seems a broken rimmèd moon—

When such things are, this world too soon,

For me, doth wear the veil of Night.