One more from the library

Just ran across this one and I just can't help myself. I'll cease and
desist for a while, I promise.

This afternoon I was looking through an older edition of Housman's "A
Shropshire Lad" and this one fairly leapt out at me. Enjoy!

XX

Oh fair enough are sky and plain,
But I know fairer far:
Those are as beautiful again
That in the water are;

The pools and rivers wash so clean
The trees and clouds and air,
The like on earth was never seen,
And oh that I were there.

These are the thoughts I often think
As I stand gazing down
In act upon the cressy brink
To strip and dive and drown;

But in the golden-sanded brooks
And azure meres I spy
A silly lad that longs and looks
And wishes he were I.

William Claspy typed:
Just ran across this one and I just can't help myself.
snip
Here's one from my library:

Woke up this mornin'
With nothin' on my mind
Nothin's all I'm a-lookin' for
And nothin's all I'll find

I've been happy here
For now-on forty year
Here I've got no one to hate
I've got no one to fear

It's just a way of life
So easy to find
But it won't be on maps they make
And you can't buy it on time

Charles Gearheart, Goose Creek Symphony, 1970

Beat *THAT* poetry, mister!
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TL,
Tim
who is reminded of roff when reciting the above.
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