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Where they in battle died。

And the sound of that mournful song

Goes through me with a thrill:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts。〃



I can see the breezy dome of groves;

The shadows of Deering's Woods;

And the friendships old and the early loves

Come back with a Sabbath sound; as of doves

In quiet neighborhoods。

And the verse of that sweet old song;

It flutters and murmurs still:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts。〃



I remember the gleams and glooms that dart

Across the school…boy's brain;

The song and the silence in the heart;

That in part are prophecies; and in part

Are longings wild and vain。

And the voice of that fitful song

Sings on; and is never still:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts。〃



There are things of which I may not speak;

There are dreams that cannot die;

There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak;

And bring a pallor into the cheek;

And a mist before the eye。

And the words of that fatal song

Come over me like a chill:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts〃



Strange to me are the forms I meet

When I visit the dear old town;

But the native air is pure and sweet;

And the trees that o'ershadow each well…known street;

As they balance up and down;

Are singing the beautiful song;

Are sighing and whispering still:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts。〃



And Deering's Woods are fresh and fair;

And with joy that is almost pain

My heart goes back to wander there;

And among the dreams of the days that were

I find my lost youth again。

And the strange and beautiful song;

The groves are repeating it still:

〃A boy's will is the wind's will;

And the thoughts of youth are long; long thoughts。〃



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow '1807…1882'





〃VOICE OF THE WESTERN WIND〃



Voice of the western wind!

Thou singest from afar;

Rich with the music of a land

Where all my memories are;

But in thy song I only hear

The echo of a tone

That fell divinely on my ear

In days forever flown。



Star of the western sky!

Thou beamest from afar;

With lustre caught from eyes I knew

Whose orbs were each a star;

But; oh; those orbs … too wildly bright …

No more eclipse thine own;

And never shall I find the light

Of days forever flown!



Edmund Clarence Stedman '1833…1908'





LANGSYNE; WHEN LIFE WAS BONNIE〃



Langsyne; when life was bonnie;

An' a' the skies were blue;

When ilka thocht took blossom;

An' hung its heid wi' dew;

When winter wasna winter;

Though snaws cam' happin' doon;

Langsyne; when life was bonnie;

Spring gaed a twalmonth roun'。



Langsyne; when life was bonnie;

An' a' the days were lang;

When through them ran the music

That comes to us in sang;

We never wearied liltin'

The auld love…laden tune;

Langsyne; when life was bonnie;

Love gaed a twalmonth roun'。



Langsyne; when life was bonnie;

An' a' the warld was fair;

The leaves were green wi' simmer;

For autumn wasna there。

But listen hoo they rustle;

Wi' an eerie; weary soun';

For noo; alas; 'tis winter

That gangs a twalmonth roun'。



Alexander Anderson '1845…1909'





THE SHOOGY…SHOO



I do be thinking; lassie; of the old days now;

For oh! your hair is tangled gold above your Irish brow;

And oh! your eyes are fairy flax! no other eyes so blue;

Come nestle in my arms; and swing upon the shoogy…shoo。



Sweet and slow; swinging low; eyes of Irish blue;

All my heart is swinging; dear; swinging here with you;

Irish eyes are like the flax; and mine are wet with dew;

Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy…shoo。



When meadow…larks would singing be in old Glentair;

Was one sweet lass had eyes of blue and tangled golden hair;

She was a wee bit girleen then; dear heart; the like of you;

When we two swung the braes among; upon the shoogy…shoo。



Ah well; the world goes up and down; and some sweet day

Its shoogy…shoo will swing us two where sighs will pass away;

So nestle close your bonnie head; and close your eyes so true;

And swing with me; and memory; upon the shoogy…shoo。



Sweet and slow; swinging low; eyes of Irish blue;

All my heart is swinging; dear; swinging here with you;

Irish eyes are like the flax; and mine are wet with dew;

Thinking of the old days upon the shoogy…shoo。



Winthrop Packard '1862…





BABYLON

〃We shall meet again in Babylon。〃



I'm going softly all my years in wisdom if in pain …

For; oh; the music stirs my blood as once it did before;

And still I hear in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;

The dancing feet in Babylon; of those who took my floor。



I'm going silent all my years; but garnered in my brain

Is that swift wit which used to flash and cut them like a sword …

And now I hear in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;

The foolish tongues in Babylon; of those who took my word。



I'm going lonely all my days; who was the first to crave

The second; fierce; unsteady voice; that struggled to speak free …

And now I watch in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;

The pallid loves in Babylon of men who once loved me。



I'm sleeping early by a flame as one content and gray;

But; oh; I dream a dream of dreams beneath a winter moon;

I breathe the breath of Babylon; of Babylon; of Babylon;

The scent of silks in Babylon that floated to a tune。



A band of years has flogged me out … an exile's fate is mine;

To sit with mumbling crones and still a heart that cries with youth。

But; oh; to walk in Babylon; in Babylon; in Babylon;

The happy streets in Babylon; when once the dream was truth。



Viola Taylor '18





THE ROAD OF REMEMBRANCE



The old wind stirs the hawthorn tree;

The tree is blossoming;

Northward the road runs to the sea;

And past the House of Spring。



The folk go down it unafraid;

The still roofs rise before;

When you were lad and I was maid;

Wide open stood the door。



Now; other children crowd the stair;

And hunt from room to room;

Outside; under the hawthorn fair;

We pluck the thorny bloom。



Out in the quiet road we stand;

Shut in from wharf and mart;

The old wind blowing up the land;

The old thoughts at our heart。 



Lizette Woodworth Reese '1856…1935'





THE TRIUMPH OF FORGOTTEN THINGS



There is a pity in forgotten things;

Banished the heart they can no longer fill;

Since restless Fancy; spreading swallow wings;

Must seek new pleasures still!



There is a patience; too; in things forgot;

They wait … they find the portal long unused;

And knocking there; it shall refuse them not; …

Nor aught shall be refused!



Ah; yes! though we; unheeding years on years;

In alien pledges spend the heart's estate;

They bide some blessed moment of quick tears …

Some moment without date …



Some gleam on flower; or leaf; or beaded dew;

Some tremble at the ear of memoried sound

Of mother…song; … they seize the slender clew; …

The old loves gather round!



When that which lured us once now lureth not;

But the tired hands their garnered dross let fall;

This is the triumph of the things forgot …

To hear the tired heart call!



And they are with us at Life's farthest reach;

A light when into shadow all else dips;

As; in the stranger's land; their native speech

Returns to dying lips!



Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'





IN THE TWILIGHT



Men say the sullen instrument;

That; from the Master's bow;

With pangs of joy or woe;

Feels music's soul through every fibre sent;

Whispers the ravished strings

More than he knew or meant;

Old summers in its memory glow;

The secrets of the wind it sings;

It hears the April…loosened springs;

And mixes with its mood

All it dreamed when it stood

In the mur

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