Читать книгу The Complete Works of Algernon Blackwood. Novels, Short Stories, Horror Classics, Occult & Supernatural Tales, Plays онлайн

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In the first soft winds of spring, while snow yet lay on the ground—

Forth from the city into the great woods wandering,

Into the great silent white woods where they waited in their beauty and

majesty

For man their companion to come:

There, in vision, out of the wreck of cities and civilizations,

Slowly out of the ruins of the past

Out of the litter and muck of a decaying world,

Lo! even so

I saw a new life arise.

O sound of waters, jubilant, pouring, pouring—O hidden song in the hollows!

Secret of the Earth, swelling, sobbing to divulge itself!

Slowly, building, lifting itself up atom by atom,

Gathering itself round a new center—or rather round the worldold

center once more revealed—

I saw a new life, a new society, arise.

Man I saw arising once more to dwell with Nature;

(The old old story—the prodigal son returning, so loved,

The long estrangement, the long entanglement in vain things)—

The child returning to its home—companion of the winter woods once

more—

Companion of the stars and waters—hearing their words at first-hand