Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOMEONE ABROAD!, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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SOMEONE ABROAD!, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is someone abroad
Last Line: Why surely—'tis god.
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders


THERE is Someone abroad
Who is it that passes
O'er winter-bleached grasses
With sandals green-shod?
Who frees with His fingers
The brown willow-pod?

Who sets the brooks flooding,
The daffodils budding,
Who stirs the new sod?
Oh, there's Someone abroad—
See, snowdrops are showing
The way of His going
And wind-flowers nod—

And listen, the heralds!
The sounds of His coming,
The flutes in the thicket,
The singing, the humming—
The wind beats the willows
Like the cymbals together,

And Aaron's dry rod
Is a-flush with green feather—
Oh, Someone's abroad!

Who is it? Who is it?
Why surely—'tis God.





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