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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE AMERICAN IN ENGLAND, by KATHARINE SCOTT RIDLEY
First Line: The little red road climbs the hill
Last Line: "who were a hundred years away."
Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips
First Line: The little red road climbs the hill
Last Line: "who were a hundred years away."
Subject(s): Americans In England; England; Travel; Wellesley College; English; Journeys; Trips
THE little red road climbs the hill
Between thorn hedges white with flowers,
The old-loved furrowed fields are still,
And gray ricks steam through quiet hours.
Blue woodsmoke fills the evening air,
Bannered against its primrose light,
From dun thatch roofs the windows stare
On rooks awheel before the night.
It seems as if this country smiled,
As if the kindly fields could say,
"So you are home, O wandering child,
Who were a hundred years away."
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