Do you remember, my sweet, absent son, How in the soft June days forever done You loved the heavens so warm and clear and high; And, when I lifted you, soft came your cry -- "Put me 'way up, -- 'way, 'way up in blue sky"? I laughed and said I could not, -- set you down, Your gray eyes wonder-filled beneath that crown Of bright hair gladdening me as you raced by. Another Father now, more strong than I, Has borne you voiceless to your dear blue sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...I SING OF LOVE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL THE JOURNEY by EMILY DICKINSON SONGS OF TRAVEL: 16 by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON WHEN by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY |