WHEN the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,
The mother of months in meadow or plain
Fills the shadows and windy places
With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain;
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How beautiful! Swinburne was a lyrical master. I can't believe he's so forgotten these days, he so sensual and strange, I can't help but adore him.