Unwillingly Miranda wakes, 
Feels the sun with terror,
 One unwilling step she takes, 
Shuddering to the mirror. 

Miranda in Miranda's sight
 Is old and gray and dirty; 
Twenty-nine she was last night; 
This morning she is thirty. 

Shining like the morning star, 
Like the twilight shining, 
Haunted by a calendar, 
Miranda sits a-pining. 

Silly girl, silver girl, 
Draw the mirror toward you; 
Time who makes the years to whirl 
Adorned as he adored you. 

Time is timelessness for you; 
Calendars for the human; 
What's a year, or thirty, to 
Loveliness made woman? 

Oh, Night will not see thirty again, 
Yet soft her wing, Miranda;
 Pick up your glass and tell me, then--
 How old is Spring, Miranda?