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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FAREWELL SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh! The brown and ruddy apples and the gold on every tree
Last Line: "I'll laugh with my new lover and not think of you at all!"
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting
First Line: Oh! The brown and ruddy apples and the gold on every tree
Last Line: "I'll laugh with my new lover and not think of you at all!"
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting
OH! the brown and ruddy apples and the gold on every tree—
And the road that has no ending, the long road for me!
Love was brown and ruddy and gold and crowned with light,
But he fears the dusty highway and the stark wind of night.
Yet when I'm on the highway gone, I fear you'll call me back,
That you'll set your thoughts to follow and your heart upon my track:—
"Oh, no! you need not fear me, for when the last leaves fall,
I'll laugh with my new lover and not think of you at all!"
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