E. Nesbit - Pessimism lyrics

Not Spring--too lavish of her bud and leaf-- But Autumn, with sad eyes and brow austere, When fields are bare, and woods are brown and sere, And leaden skies weep their exhaustless grief. Spring is so much too bright, since Spring is brief. And in our hearts is Autumn all the year, Least sad when the wide pastures are most drear, And fields grieve most robbed of the last gold sheaf. For when the plough goes down the brown wet field A delicate doubtful throb of hope is ours-- What if this coming Spring at last should yield Joy, with her too profuse unasked-for flowers? Not all our Springs of commonplace and pain Have taught us now that Autumn hope is vain.