Poetical Fragments from Ethel Churchill Volume II/Change

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

For works with similar titles, see Change.

For works with similar titles, see Mutability.

CHAPTER XXV.

MEETING OF OLD FRIENDS.

How much of change lies in a little space!
How soon the spirits leave their youth behind!
The early green forsakes the bough; the flowers,
Nature's more fairy-like and fragile ones,
Droop on the way-side, and the later leaves
Have artifice and culture—so the heart:
How soon its soft spring hours take darker hues!
And hopes, that were like rainbows, melt in shade;
While the fair future, ah! how fair it seemed!
Grows dark and actual.

Blanchard’s title is:

CHANGE

In The New Yorker (23rd March 1838), as Mutability