Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WANDERINGS OF CAIN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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First Line: Encinctured with a twine of leaves
Last Line: Has he no friend, no loving mother near?
Variant Title(s): The Child In The Wilderness;the Fruit Plucker
Subject(s): Boys


Encinctured with a twine of leaves,
That leafy twine his only dress,
A lovely Boy was plucking fruits,
By moonlight, in a wilderness.
The moon was bright, the air was free,
And fruits and flowers together grew
On many a shrub and many a tree:
And all put on a gentle hue,
Hanging in the shadowy air
Like a picture rich and rare.
It was a climate where, they say,
The night is more beloved than day.
But who that beauteous Boy beguiled,
That beauteous Boy to linger here?
Alone, by night, a little child,
In place so silent and so wild--
Has he no friend, no loving mother near?





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