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THE RIVER ROAD by WILLIAM GARDINER

First Line: PERFUME OF HONEY, INCENSE SWEET
Last Line: NOT ECSTASY?
Subject(s): BEAUTY; NATURE;
Perfume of honey, incense sweet,
Among the trees
Where sleeps the river at their feet,
To drone of bees;
And lures the road, on winding way,
To follow still,
Beyond the bend, afar, astray,
Beyond the soaring hill --

O, soul of mine, is this to thee
Not ecstasy?



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