false spring

we know the winter will quite soon return
but for the time we've got we greet the spring
the sun itself in its fresh joy will sing
and for the proper time of year must yearn
but yet we know that we truly cannot earn
the right to all the joys this warmth must bring
still we will with zeal just guard the ring
that holds in place the warmth and gentleness
nothing that we can do will hold back time
but still we want the sun itself to pause
to bring a halt to all our restlessness
to banish time and aging as a crime
and subject us to kinder softer laws