Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WHISP'RING WIND, by GROVER THOMAS SOMERS


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THE WHISP'RING WIND, by                    
First Line: You ask me why there's no return
Last Line: The e'er recurrent whisp'ring wind!
Subject(s): Wind


You ask me why there's no return
O'er roads and lanes—familiar miles—
And why the barque will ever yearn
Toward the banks of other isles?

The Whisp'ring Wind bids onward go
O'er fields and valleys—rivers wide—
To learn to listen and to know
The language of the stream and tide!

From warbling of the birds above,
Or babbling of the brooks below,
Though lesser be the lands you love,
The Whisp'ring Wind bids onward go!

Ah, when you are with readings done—
And nothing more of lessons learn,
In morn or noon or ev'ning sun—
Put on the power and pages turn!

Turn ever off the candles dim
And journey o'er the lighted way,
Toward the blazed horizon's rim
And bask awhile in sunbeam spray!

O'er mountains high and valleys low,
And into fields and forests wide,
Nor hesitate—nor fast nor slow—
Where Nature doth Her wealth provide:

Chase phantoms few, if chase you must,
In caverns old—or in the mind—
And draw aside the dreams and dust
To welcome you the Whisp'ring Wind!

And where She bids, obedience show,
Fore'er 'twill make you more inclin'd
To deeper draughts—Ah, even so—
The e'er recurrent Whisp'ring Wind!





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