Early Spring

Portrait of Rainer Maria Rilke
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875–1926

Harshness vanished. A sudden softness has replaced the meadows' wintry grey. Little rivulets of water changed their singing accents. Tendernesses,

hesitantly, reach toward the earth from space, and country lanes are showing these unexpected subtle risings that find expression in the empty trees.

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