Oxford Revisited

by Vera Brittain

Oxford Revisited was published in Brittain's collection, Verses of a V.A.D. in 1918.

An illustration for the story Oxford Revisited by the author Vera Brittain — Somerville College, Oxford coat of arms

There’s a gleam of sun on the grey old street
Where we used to walk in the Oxford days,
And dream that the world lay beneath our feet
In the dawn of a summer morning.
Now the years have passed, and it’s we who lie
Crushed under the burden of world-wide woe,
But the misty magic will never die
From the dawn of an Oxford morning.
And the end delays, and perhaps no more
I shall see the spires of my youth’s delight,
But they’ll gladden my eyes as in days of yore
At the dawn of Eternal Morning.

June 1917.

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