Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THUS FAR, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN


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First Line: In glades where frost is ambushed in the ferns
Last Line: Answered, would leave but wood and water there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Spring


In glades where frost is ambushed in the ferns,
In the low meadow dipping to the stream,
A luring light and subtle beauty burns,
And now I see and now have lost the gleam;
The water sings, its crystal body curls
With welling music round the root and stone,
But a voice haunts there, clear above the swirls,
And now I catch and now I miss that tone.

Spring, light of light; stay not so shyly far,
Maybe a dream, maybe a living truth;
Voice that was there, attend that sudden star,
And in one fountain song say you are youth,
Or love, or some resemblance --
Ah, that prayer,
Answered, would leave but wood and water there.





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