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THE FOLD by ALICE MEYNELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: BEHOLD / THE TIME IS NOW!
Last Line: AND LET ME BE THE FOLD!
Subject(s): CARPE DIEM;

BEHOLD,
The time is now! Bring back, bring back
Thy flocks of fancies, wild of whim.
O lead them from the mountain-track
Thy frolic thoughts untold,
O bring them in -- the fields grow dim --
And let me be the fold!

Behold,
The time is now! Call in, O call
Thy pasturing kisses gone astray
For scattered sweets; gather them all
To shelter from the cold.
Throng them together, close and gay,
And let me be the fold!



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