Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT FOURSCORE, by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD


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AT FOURSCORE, by                    
First Line: She sits in the gathering shadows
Last Line: And the snowflakes in her hair.
Subject(s): Mothers


SHE sits in the gathering shadows
By the porch where the roses blow
And her thoughts are back in the summer
That vanished long ago.

She forgets the graves on the hillside,
She forgets that she is old,
And remembers only the gladness
That the old times used to hold.

She hears, as of old, the voices
Of the dear ones who are dead;
She smooths out the shining tangles
That crown each little head;

She kisses the faces lifted
To her as in days of old,
And the heart of the dreaming mother
Is full of peace untold.

So, while the night comes round her,
She sits with her children there,
Forgetting the years that took them,
And the snowflakes in her hair.





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