Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LOST LAD, by AMY MAY ROGERS


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LOST LAD, by                    
First Line: The lad I love shall be as straight
Last Line: "who always walked this way?"
Subject(s): Aging; Love - Loss Of


The lad I love shall be as straight
As that poplar, and his eyes
Shall be as clear as the quiet brook
Ever, at dawning, lies.

He shall be brown as an oak in Fall,
Clean as a young white pine;
But I'll not look for him here, not I ...
Towns breed not lads like mine.

Thus spoke my youth ... and youth is gone,
With never the lad so straight,
For fields and hills and their clear-eyed men
Were far from my city gate.

At twilight a neighbor called to me,
"That old man died today.
You hadn't known him? Why, yes, you had.
Don't you remember the tall, brown lad
Who always walked this way?"





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