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BROADWAY REMEMBERS HER CHILDHOOD, by                    
First Line: Sisters, little country roads I knew and loved
Last Line: I remember and I envy each of you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Children; Wellesley College; Childhood


SISTERS, little country roads I knew and loved,
Long and long ago and far away,
Where the rosy lumps of children roll their hoops and play
After school,
Till the west ripples pink and the fields breathe cool
And their mothers in the dooryards call them home,
(Emeline! Ora! May!)
Sisters, little country roads I knew and loved, --
In childhood (that's the time to roam)
The Autumn Road that winds up over the hill
To the hazy sun;
The Tangly Road where the brown-lace carrots flute
Their cup-shaped hands;
The Forsaken Road where the barberries frill
The lonely fences
With shrivels of beady red;
The Orchard Lane by the clear-faced brook to the cider mill
Where the joking old men toddle
With their gleanings in a sack,
(The familiar hopeful look
Of the gnurly faded back!)
The Green Road, ferny-smelling, --
It drifts through the silent wood
Like a meditating girl; --
All ye friendly Paths and Country Places,
Alive and different like human folk,
(One of you had a bird-blue cloak
Of cunning wings and leaves,
And oh, the whispering bonnet woven
Of teasel-cones and glistery sheaves!)
Sisters, little country roads I knew and loved,
Knew your names so long ago and far away,
I who am in exile and a worldling, changed, ah, changed;
I remember and I envy each of you!





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