Wisdom

Listen to: 

Wisdom (:47)

by Sara Teasdale 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode

  It was a night of early spring,

    The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;

  Around us shadows and the wind

    Listened for what was never spoken.

  Though half a score of years are gone,

    Spring comes as sharply now as then--

  But if we had it all to do

    It would be done the same again.

  It was a spring that never came;

    But we have lived enough to know

  That what we never have, remains;

    It is the things we have that go.