Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE OLD WOODS, by ESTELLE GERALDINE GRIFFIN


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THE OLD WOODS, by                    
First Line: Dear woods, of cherished memories
Last Line: In sweet memory, shall always dwell.
Subject(s): Memory


Dear woods, of cherished memories,
Sanctuary, of childhood's golden hours
Beneath your tall magnificent trees
We gathered sweet wild flowers;
Along the placid silvery stream
The graceful weeping willows grew,
You are in my mind and heart imbued
Old woods, that is each year new!
Many happy golden summer hours we played;
Beneath your green tree's lovely gracious shade.
I knew your tender beauty of spring,
Your darker deeper varied hues of June.
Ah! how my young heart thrilled to sing,
Of the beauty, of your dogwood bloom!
The chirr-chirr-whirr -- of musical monotony
From the unseen players of your summer symphony;
Birds calling, twittering, singing, from the trees,
The jubilant songs of tree-toads
From the luxuriant shelter of leaves,
The azure sky, the shade-cooled breeze,
Filled my heart with pure sweet ecstasy
Ah! ardently, I longed to be a gypsy,
To possess a violin, to play a rhapsody
Of adoration, and love, on vibrant strings
To this paradise, of glorious vivid greens.
Old woods! In the sun's full golden ray,
In the dewy fragrance of a new-born day,
In the star's far faint misty gleam
In the mystic beauty of the moon's full beam;
I loved you, knew you, caught your magic spell,
In my heart your verdant beauty
In sweet memory, shall always dwell.





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