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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WAY BETWEEN, by ADOLPH OLIVER GOLDSMITH
First Line: From green to green is an endless way
Last Line: To break the brown bitterness.
First Line: From green to green is an endless way
Last Line: To break the brown bitterness.
From green to green is an endless way.
The breathing green at the pine tree's top
Is years away
From the sleeping moss at its feet.
The way between from green to green
Is rough and hard and grating,
With never a place for the eye to rest
From the dull drab space between
The green.
Upward from mossy smooth childhood
The way is irksome as pine tree bark,
With never a break in the roughness,
Never a twig to cling to.
Slowly climbing toward the living green
That is surely above,
Nothing can be done
Except perhaps to crawl
Under the shaggy bark to oblivion,
Hoping to irritate the life beneath
And cause it to thrust out a branch
Of green in protest
To break the brown bitterness.
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