Bloom and Pass Away
Bloom and Pass Away - meaning Summary
Acceptance of Passing Youth
The speaker looks back without regret as youth fades, likening life's glow to mist and autumn leaves. He recognizes that former pleasures and impulses, the urge to roam, the heat of desire, the barefoot intimacy with nature, no longer return with the same intensity. Time feels swift and irreversible, as if life has galloped past at dawn. Yet the tone is not bitter. He accepts change as natural and universal, acknowledging that all living things bloom briefly and fall. The closing blessing turns the elegy outward, honoring everyone who shares this fate and affirming the dignity of impermanence.
Read Complete AnalysesI do not regret, and I do not shed tears, all, like haze off apple-trees, must pass. Turning gold, I’m fading, it appears, I will not be young again, alas. Having got to know the touch of coolness I will not feel, as before, so good. And the land of birch trees - oh my goodness! Cannot make me wander barefoot. Vagrant’s spirit! You do not so often stir the fire of my lips these days. Oh my freshness, that begins to soften! Oh my lost emotions, vehement gaze! Presently I do not feel a yearning, oh, my life! Have I been sleeping fast? Well, it feels like early in the morning on a rosy horse I’ve galloped past. We are all to perish, hoping for some favour, golden leaves flow down turning grey. May you be redeemed and blessed for ever, you who came to bloom and pass away…
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