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THE PATH by EDWARD JOSEPH HARRINGTON O'BRIEN

First Line: HE FOLLOWED THE CURVE OF THE SUNRISE
Last Line: WAS NO LONGER THE WAY FOR HIM.
Subject(s): ROADS; PATHS; TRAILS;

He followed the curve of the sunrise
Till he came to the gap of the hill,
Where the golden track to the morning
Beckoned, very still.

And over that ancient pathway,
In a mist of flooding foam,
He met the star-eyed shepherd
Bringing his slow flock home.

Up through the gates of magic
They drifted, one by one,
As the little white clouds on the hillside
Drifted before the sun.

Softly, before their shepherd,
They paced down the grassy rim,
And the golden track to the morning
Was no longer the way for him.



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