Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SASSAFRAS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE


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First Line: Oh, here's, oh, here's your sassafras
Last Line: Here's sassafras!
Subject(s): Sassafras


OH, here's, oh, here's your sassafras! --
Across the stall, (as I did pass), --
Lo, in small bundles red and lone,
The savory woodland stuff was shown!
Here's sassafras!
Here country memories to buy!
Here Tyre and Nineveh and Rome;
And youth, spice-laden, going by
When the round sun is low in sky,
And home, home!
I had not thought it long ago,
Since we came home across the grass --
But just a yesterday or so --
Till that call shook me to and fro;
Here's sassafras!






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