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TO JOESPH JEFFERSON by HENRY VAN DYKE

First Line: WE MET ON NATURE'S STAGE
Last Line: "CRIED, ""ENTER RIP VAN WINKLE!"
Subject(s): JEFFERSON, JOSEPH (1825-1905);
WE met on Nature's stage,
And May had set the scene,
With bishop-caps standing in delicate ranks,
And violets blossoming over the banks,
While the brook ran full between.

The waters rang your call,
With frolicsome waves a-twinkle, --
They knew you as boy, and they knew you as man,
And every wave, as it merrily ran,
Cried, "Enter Rip van Winkle!"



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