1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 2<poem> 3 <author>Rupert Brooke</author> 4 <date>1912</date> 5 <title>Song</title> 6 <stanza> 7 <line number="1" of="4">And suddenly the wind comes soft,</line> 8 <line number="2" of="4">And Spring is here again;</line> 9 <line number="3" of="4">And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green</line> 10 <line number="4" of="4">And my heart with buds of pain.</line> 11 </stanza> 12 <stanza> 13 <line number="1" of="4">My heart all Winter lay so numb,</line> 14 <line number="2" of="4">The earth so dead and frore,</line> 15 <line number="3" of="4">That I never thought the Spring would come again</line> 16 <line number="4" of="4">Or my heart wake any more.</line> 17 </stanza> 18 <stanza> 19 <line number="1" of="4">But Winter's broken and earth has woken,</line> 20 <line number="2" of="4">And the small birds cry again;</line> 21 <line number="3" of="4">And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,</line> 22 <line number="4" of="4">And my heart puts forth its pain.</line> 23 </stanza> 24</poem>