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OLD COUNTRY ROADS by NELLIE I. CRABB

First Line: LITTLE-WORN ROADS USED TO MEANDER
Last Line: WHERE HAVE THE OLD ROADS GONE TO?
Subject(s): ROADS; PATHS; TRAILS;
Little-worn roads used to meander
Like the ancient streams through low valleys.
They were accustomed to climbing the hill-slopes,
And they seemed to drop into nothingness.
We rode the white horse of adventure
When accepting their whimsical challenge.
Fragrance belonged to the untrampled fields
That bordered their deep-rutted edges.
Sunshine ran in the unending bird-highways
And played peep-eye through the leaf-meshes.
Where have the old roads gone to?



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