Here In This spring
Here
in
this
spring,
stars
float
along
the
void;
Here
in
this
ornamental
winter
Down
pelts
the
naked
weather;
This
summer
buries
a
spring
bird.
Symbols
are
selected
from
the
years'
Slow
rounding
of
four
seasons'
coasts,
In
autumn
teach
three
seasons'
fires
And
four
birds'
notes.
I
should
tell
summer
from
the
trees,
the
worms
Tell,
if
at
all,
the
winter's
storms
Or
the
funeral
of
the
sun;
I
should
learn
spring
by
the
cuckooing,
And
the
slug
should
teach
me
destruction.
A
worm
tells
summer
better
than
the
clock,
The
slug's
a
living
calendar
of
days;
What
shall
it
tell
me
if
a
timeless
insect
Says
the
world
wears
away?
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas (born October 27, 1914, Swansea, Glamorgan [now in Swansea], Wales—died November 9, 1953, New York, New York, U.S.) Welsh poet and prose writer whose work is known for its comic exuberance, rhapsodic lilt, and pathos. His personal life, punctuated by reckless bouts of drinking, was notorious. Thomas spent his childhood in southwestern Wales. His father taught English at the Swansea grammar school, which in due course the boy attended. Because Dylan’s mother was a farmer’s daughter, he had a country home he could go to when on holiday. His poem “Fern Hill” (1946) describes its joys.