I thought that spring must last forevermore
For I was young and loved, and it was May.
Source: May Morning, St. 4 (May 1916), Poems of the War and After, 1934.
-- Vera Brittain, (NA 1896-1970), English writer, poet, pacifist; She wrote of WWI experiences in Testament of Youth, 1933; made into English series shown on PBS.