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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ECHOES, by MARY ELLEN TANNER
First Line: Standing by the gateway
Last Line: Of the vanished years.
Subject(s): Echoes
First Line: Standing by the gateway
Last Line: Of the vanished years.
Subject(s): Echoes
Standing by the gateway
In the evening glow,
Listening to the footfalls
Of the long ago.
Not so long in days and years
If you count it so;
Count the time in heart throbs,
Then you come to know.
Mother's little toddlers
Walked at just a year.
Bounding steps of schoolboys --
Listen! do you hear?
Romping home at close of day
No other sound so dear,
Gallant lads so trim and tall
Stepping quite the beau.
Merry, laughing, teasing ways,
Mother loves them so;
Life is calling from afar --
Eagerly they go.
Now they walk in places far
Firmly without fear,
Leading busy earnest lives. --
Very quiet here,
Listening to the echoes
Of the vanished years.
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