And spring is here again. By Rupert Brook. All suddenly the wind comes soft, and spring is here again, and the Hawthorn quickens with buds of green, and my heart with buds of pain. My heart all winter lay so numb, the earth so dead and fro, that I never thought the spring would come, or my heart wake anymore. But winter is broken and earth has woken, and the small birds cry again, and the Hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds, and my heart puts forth its pain.