<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357373" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Forest Scene</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As I went down a forest place<br>At the closing of the year<br>To find me peace, and gather grace<br>In this green gladness here.<br>I saw a scene I knew of old,<br>In many a year gone by <br>A loveliness to have and hold<br>Here, with the gully waters cold,<br>And the bland, blue peeping sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I saw the blue wrens trooping near,<br>And I heard the thrushes call,<br>And found surcease from worldly fear <br>For a peace was over all.<br>And my mind went back to long ago,<br>For here was a scene I knew<br>Where the gums and ancient tree ferns grow,<br>And the ever-lasting waters flow,<br> And life yields little new.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I thought of the world - of the world of men,<br>Who ever seek them change,<br>And haste, and hectic, haste again<br>To a goal beyond their range.<br>And I heard the thrush and the blue wren there<br>Fluting their songs of glee <br>For them this world was passing fair,<br>And they found content and gladness there.<br>Why came not peace to me?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then I saw life, as men see life <br> I who am but a man;<br>And I dreamed of a scene devoid of strife,<br>Built on the good God's plan.<br>And I came me back from that forest place,<br>With a dream to have and hold,<br>Of men with naught but life to face,<br>Of men grown young in simple grace,<br> And the birds and the bush grown old!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357373" data-title="A Forest Scene de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="As I went down a forest place At the closing of the year To find me peace, and gather grace In this green gladness here. I saw a scene I knew of old, In many a year gone by A loveliness to have and hold Here, with the gully waters cold, And the b..."></div> </div> </div>

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