Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEXT MAY, by T. K. WHIPPLE


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NEXT MAY, by                    
First Line: Next may the cherry-blossoms bright
Last Line: Live on in hearts of other men!
Subject(s): Holidays; May (month); New Year


Next May the cherry-blossoms bright
Will make the meadows all as white,
And Stony Brook will be as fair
With purple violets everywhere;
In woodlands where the thrushes sing,
Next year the self-same song will ring
For others, as for us to-day.
And in the deep grass where we lay
And loitered sunlit hours of ease,
They'll lie outstretched beneath the trees,
And homeward fare when silently
Comes golden dusk -- even as we.

And when the Millstone mirrors plain
The fresh green boughs of spring again,
Canoes will thread its leafy maze;
By deeper pools where sunlight plays,
Bathers will strip and dive once more,
And laughter echo, shore to shore.
O meadow, woodland, stream, and field,
The halycon hours and days you yield
May others know as well as we,
And going, leave their hearts in fee: --
And if we never come again,
Live on in hearts of other men!





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