Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VESPERS, by ALBERT FREDERICK WILSON


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First Line: Of three
Last Line: "and say, 'why, man, this stuff will grow!'"
Subject(s): Conversion


Of three
Who sat in the dooryard sun,
One said, "I'd like a hill,
When this is done,
A place where I can look around,
Provided I'm not sleeping sound."

And one:
"Hill or vale, what's that to me?
I'd like a place beneath a tree,
And when the spring is here about,
I'd climb up with the sap and shout."

But the third said:
"I'll take the dip
In the old wood lot,
Where I can lie in peace and rot
Until, some day, as those things go,
Some one will pinch my dust, just so,
And say, 'Why, man, this stuff will grow!'"





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