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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SECOND BALLAD OF ANTIQUITARIES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends that we know not,' - late we said Last Line: Hail to you all, old friends and new! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin | |||
'FRIENDS that we know not,' -- late we said. We know you now, true friends, who still, Where'er Time's tireless scythe has led, Have wrought with us through good and ill -- Have toiled the weary sheaves to fill. Hail then, O known and tried! -- and you, Who know us not to-day, but will -- Hail to you all, Old Friends and New! With no scant store our barns are fed: The full sacks bulge by door and sill, With grain the threshing-floors are spread, The piled grist feeds the humming mill; And -- but for you -- all this were nil, A harvest of lean ears and few, But for your service, friends, and skill; Hail to you all, Old Friends and New! But hark! -- Is that the Reaper's tread? Come, let us glean once more until Here, where the snowdrop lifts its head, The days bring round the daffodil; Till winds the last June roses kill, And Autumn fades; till, 'neath the yew, Once more we cry, with Winter chill, Hail to you all, Old Friends and New! ENVOY. Come! Unto all a horn we spill, Brimmed with a foaming Yule-tide brew, Hail to you all, by vale and hill! -- Hail to you all, Old Friends and New! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A GAGE D'AMOUR by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON A GARDEN SONG by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON ARS VICTRIX (IMITATED FROM THEOPHILE GAUTIER) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON BEFORE SEDAN by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON DORA VERSUS ROSE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON GROWING GRAY by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE BALLAD OF PROSE AND RHYME by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON WHEN THERE IS PEACE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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