Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GOD'S WILL, by ROBERT LOUIS MUNGER


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GOD'S WILL, by                    
First Line: I know, I know where violets blow
Last Line: And god knows why.


I KNOW, I know where violets blow
Upon a sweet hillside,
And very bashfully they grow
And in the grasses hide --
It is the fairest field, I trow,
In the whole world wide.

One spring I saw two lassies go,
Brown cheek and laughing eye;
They swung their aprons to and fro,
They filled them very high
With violets -- then whispered low
So strange, I wondered why.

I know where violet tendrils creep
And crumbled tombstones lie,
The green churchyard is silence-deep;
The village folk go by,
And lassies laugh and women weep,
And God knows why.





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