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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHURCH PICNIC, by LINCOLN FITZELL
First Line: Leaning by a pebble-brook
Last Line: Carve their names on river trees.
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues
First Line: Leaning by a pebble-brook
Last Line: Carve their names on river trees.
Subject(s): Picnics; Barbecues
Leaning by a pebble-brook
In a sandy, tangled shade,
Quiet elders doze or look
Placidly across the glade.
For in Sunday talk abreast,
Passing workers gravely hope
That rough laboring is blessed,
And their paths to heaven slope.
After speech a man feels good,
Full of strength to bowl his will,
Or, with loud affection rude,
To rouse warm echoes from the hill.
Freshened by the water's flow,
Daylight cools with summer ease;
Couples in the leafy glow
Carve their names on river trees.
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