Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN


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First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad
Last Line: And there the wonder ends.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WHENE'ER I take my walks abroad
And see the fields outspread,
My heart leaps up to thank that God
Who such sweet things has made.

But dear as are the fields I know,
And like friends' faces kind,
Some, more than others, when I go,
I carry in my mind.

Some, more than others, beckon me
From out the dusty town,
With "Come and lie beneath a tree
And fling your burthen down."

Some, more than others, make a breast
Where my tired thoughts may lean,
With "Turn again and take your rest
All in a shadow green."

And why a certain field should prove,
When far away I range,
More than another in my love,
I find it passing strange.

For each displays the velvet floor,
And each the grove ashine;
And some have purling streams, and more
The quietly breathing kine.

I love them all; yet when I leave
And in the sad town mourn,
Some haunt me at the morn and eve,
And call me to return.

And each has many birds and flowers,
Each spreads a golden sheet
When the sweet Summer's in the bowers
And Cuckoo's calling sweet.

And one I never hear at all
Wherever I may roam;
While one at dawn and evenfall
Calls me and calls me home.

Dear are the fields; and yet 'tis plain
One has one's dearest friends
Among the fields as among men;
And there the wonder ends.





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