Arcturus brings the spring back As surely now as when He rose on eastern islands For Grecian girls and men;
The twilight is as clear a blue, The star as shaken and as bright, And the same thought he gave to them He gives to me to-night.
Watching Arcturus appear, the speaker feels spring returning just as it must have done long ago in Greece. The star looks the same—twilight still that clear blue, its light still quivering—and that continuity gives the speaker a quiet sense of companionship with the past.
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