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First Line: The years passed by, and my pure love
Last Line: Nature for me has saved mankind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Nature


The years passed by, and my pure love
For Nature did no longer grow:
'I'll get that love back soon,' thought I --
'By living with more men than now.'
But I made enemies; so I
Return to Nature, where my pain
Shall be forgotten, and my love
For humankind come back again.
When through the woods and fields I go,
No thought is mine of human care;
Under a rainbow's jewelled arch,
No foe can find a lodgment there;
And when our fearless nightingales
Sing in a summer's thunderstorm,
Like choir boys when an organ's played --
Where are such tongues as whisper harm?
So, with this changed and sweeter mind,
Nature for me has saved mankind.





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