VII
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
· (no date)
Published 01/07/1880
Part of New-Year's Eve
When the flowers come again, mother, beneath the waning light,
Ye'll never see me more in the long gray fields at night;
When from the dry dark wold the summer airs blow cool.
On the oatgrass and the swordgrass, and the bulrush in the pool.