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Page 402
And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still : “ A boy's will is the wind's will , And the thoughts of youth are long , long thoughts . ” I remember the bulwarks by the shore , And the fort upon the hill ; The sunrise ...
And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still : “ A boy's will is the wind's will , And the thoughts of youth are long , long thoughts . ” I remember the bulwarks by the shore , And the fort upon the hill ; The sunrise ...
Page 454
DIRGE IN WOODS A wind sways the pines , And below Not a breath of wild air ; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there . The pine - tree drops its dead ; They are quiet , as under the ...
DIRGE IN WOODS A wind sways the pines , And below Not a breath of wild air ; Still as the mosses that glow On the flooring and over the lines Of the roots here and there . The pine - tree drops its dead ; They are quiet , as under the ...
Page 596
I had not slept for knowing He too , dead , was a stranger in that land And felt beneath the earth in the wind's flowing A tightening of roots and would not understand , Remembering lake winds in Illinois , That strange wind .
I had not slept for knowing He too , dead , was a stranger in that land And felt beneath the earth in the wind's flowing A tightening of roots and would not understand , Remembering lake winds in Illinois , That strange wind .
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| Title | Collins Albatross Book of Verse: English and American Poetry from the Thirteenth Century to the Present Day School edition |
| Editor | Louis Untermeyer |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Collins, 1960 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 7 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 672 pages |
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