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when winter comes spring isn't far behind
A proverb meaning that after hardship, better times will come. Uses classical grammar (来たりなば, 遠からじ).
「冬来たりなば春遠からじ」という言葉を信じて、辛い時期を乗り越えた。
Believing the saying 'when winter comes spring isn't far behind,' I got through the tough times.
A Japanese rendering of a line from Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind': 'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?'