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Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Dora Greenwell (18211882)
In Spring the green leaves shoot
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IN 1 spring the green leaves shoot, | |
In spring the blossoms fall, | |
With summer falls the fruit, | |
The leaves in autumn fall, | |
Contented from the bough | 5 |
They drop, leaves, blossoms now, | |
And ripen’d fruit; the warm earth takes them all. | |
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Thus all things ask for rest, | |
A home above, a home beneath the sod: | |
The sun will seek the west, | 10 |
The bird will seek its nest, | |
The heart another breast | |
Whereon to lean, the spirit seeks its God. | |
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Note 1. The poems of Dora Greenwell have not of late met with the appreciation they deserve. I have to thank Miss Greenwell’s biographer, the Rev. W. Dorling, for obtaining the leave of her brother and literary executor to this selection. [back] |
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