Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BLAZED TRAIL, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN


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First Line: Just when the path is lost to me
Last Line: The trail shows broad and plain.
Subject(s): Fire; Roads; Paths; Trails


JUST when the path is lost to me,
Bewildered wanderer in the maze,
Upon some unexpected tree
I spy the Woodman's blaze;

A mystic rune of sight or sound,
A message quick from sense to soul,
That lifts the spirit from the ground
And speeds it to the goal.

A wind-flower nodding by an oak
Has given assurance from afar;
Once in the dark a fragrance spoke,
And once it was a star.

The silver fluting of a thrush;
The bursting of a sunken flame;
A sigh of wind, a sudden hush --
Out of the depths I came.

A burning challenge to despair
Flashed from an idly-open book;
A small dumb creature's silent prayer,
A friend's revealing look;

And all the doubtful horrors fade,
The weary heart leaps up again.
Through tangled thickets in the shade,
The Trail shows broad and plain.





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