Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AYE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES



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First Line: How many years since I, a wandering man
Last Line: Aye ... Aye ... Aye.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Poverty


How many years since I, a wandering man,
Sat at a forest fire, for warmth and light!
With but one mate, a bird unseen, and strange
That kept on crying, all the livelong night –
'Aye! ... Aye! ... Aye!'

Though times are changed, and different fires are mine,
Yet if that strange, wild bird could but restore
The youth I lost when in his forest glade –
Would I not come again in rags, and poor?
'Aye ... Aye ... Aye.'





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