Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SCRAWL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: I want to sing something - but
Last Line: That swings in the smile of god.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): God; Love; Rhyme


I WANT to sing something -- but this is all --
I try and I try, but the rhymes are dull
As though they were damp, and the echoes fall
Limp and unlovable.

Words will not say what I yearn to say --
They will not walk as I want them to,
But they stumble and fall in the path of the way
Of my telling my love for you.

Simply take what the scrawl is worth --
Knowing I love you as sun the sod
On the ripening side of the great round earth
That swings in the smile of God.





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