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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SCENES OF CHILDHOOD, by EDWARD MOXON Poet's Biography
First Line: And do I then behold again the scene
Last Line: With dream of years long past, and drop a tear.
Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Childhood
First Line: And do I then behold again the scene
Last Line: With dream of years long past, and drop a tear.
Subject(s): Children; Nostalgia; Childhood
AND do I then behold again the scene,
Where once I sported when a wanton child;
The mead, the church, the streamlet running wild,
With here and there a fairy spot between,
Smiling, as there rude storm had never been?
Alas! how changed are we who once did rove,
Calder, thy then enchanted banks along;
Retiring now to the sequester'd grove,
Now cheerful hearkening to the accustom'd song
That rose at eventide these vales among!
The charm and hope of youth the green leaves wear;
'Tis only man that blossoms and decays,
To know no second spring. I thoughtful gaze
With dream of years long past, and drop a tear.
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