Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG


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WHITESIDE MOUNTAIN, by                    
First Line: Are you calling me, my mountain
Last Line: Calling coaxingly to me.
Subject(s): Heaven; Memory; Mountains; Valleys; Paradise; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


Are you calling me, my mountain,
Calling me to you once more,
To your winding, briery pathways
And your soft pine-needled floor?
Those who think you stern, unfriendly,
Do not know your gentle heart,
Do not know your giant hemlocks
Or the way the shy birds dart
Out from your dark, hidden tangles
Past your merry little streams
That go babbling on so gaily
Making music for my dreams.

High up on your wind-swept summit,
Close beneath the sapphire sky
All the lovely winds of heaven
Whirl and swirl and flutter by;
Down below you in the valley,
On an early April day
Pink waves roll in gentle rythm
Undulating, swiftly sway—
Wild peach trees in fluttering blossom
Wandering far as eye can see
Flushing all the little valley
With a rosy mystery.

City streets lie here before me,
Concrete buildings hem me in
But my heart is gaily wandering
Your green pathways cool and dim,
Trails that wander off in memory
Beckon me persistently
And I hear my distant mountain
Calling coaxingly to me.





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