back from that unseenness

.

The sap is mounting back from that unseenness

darkly renewing in the common deep,

back to the light, and feeding the pure greenness

hiding in rinds round which the winds still weep.

I inner side of Nature is reviving .

another sursum corda will resound;

invisibly, a whole year's youth is striving

to climb those trees that look so iron-bound.

Preserving still that grey and cool expression,

the ancient walnut

s filling with event;

while the young brush-wood trembles with repression

under the perching bird's presentiment.

.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

from Possibility of Being