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BALLAD OF THE PRIMROSE WAY, by                    
First Line: Life, through the arc of a century
Last Line: Earth's olympus is primrose way.
Subject(s): Life; Primroses; Youth


LIFE, through the arc of a century
Cronies two we have faced the road,
Cheek by jowl since the first young day
When the primrose path before us glowed;
Mind you the wonders the vista showed?
Cloth of gold where the sunlight lay —
Mind you the cowslip balls we stowed?
Glinting guerdons of Primrose Way.

Life, you're a faithful votary,
Years and a day to keep the code;
Yours was a rare knight-errantry,
For hobble-de-hoy my fancy rode.
But, then the cowslip crop we sowed!
Crowfoot furrows we reap to-day;
Carols have changed to a palinode,
And lost forever is Primrose Way.

L'Envoi

Youth, of the morning sandals shod,
List to a graybeard elegy:
Man but once is a demigod —
Earth's Olympus is Primrose Way.





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