<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357446" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Barley Grass</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wavin' corn upon the hillside,<br>Twinklin' daisies on the rise,<br>Mystic bushes across the ranges,<br>Wattle in its spring-time guise,<br>Stately gums that mark the twinin's<br>Of the ole creek - let 'em pass.<br>Leave me here to lie, a-lazin'<br>In the noddin' barley grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barley grass was noddin', noddin'<br>'Long the dear ole township track<br>Where, in school days, we were ploddin':<br>Four mile there an' four mile back.<br>Teacher, on the summer mornin's,<br>Called us, scoldin', from the class,<br>An' we wasted precious moments<br>Pickin' out the barley grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Barley grass insinuatin',<br>In a summer long ago,<br>Gained a girl maternal ratin',<br>Made a chap a holy show.<br>'Some one's been to walk with some one <br>Down the creek-side with a lass.<br>Fie, it ain't no use denyin'<br>Tell-tale seeds of barley grass.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Came a time, when fortune frownin'<br>Sent a spring in cruel guise:<br>Wilted corn upon the hillside,<br>Brown soil barren on the rise,<br>Droopin' gums along the ole creek<br>Dry beneath a sky of brass;<br>An' we longed for just the sight of<br>One green tuft of barley grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we battle on together,<br>Her an' me that mockin' spring,<br>Never losin' faith or doubting'<br>What the future was to bring.<br>Watchin', waitin' for the dawnin',<br>For the time of trial to pass;<br>An' 'twas her that found one mornin'<br>That first peep of barley grass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We don't want no wreath of roses,<br>We don't want no immortelles,<br>When the last of us reposes<br>In the last of earthly spells.<br>Plant above - we ain't presumin'<br>To be writ on stone or brass <br>Just a modest, unassumin',<br>Simple bit of barley grass.</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=357446" data-title="Barley Grass de Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis" data-description="Wavin' corn upon the hillside, Twinklin' daisies on the rise, Mystic bushes across the ranges, Wattle in its spring-time guise, Stately gums that mark the twinin's Of the ole creek - let 'em pass. Leave me here to lie, a-lazin' In the noddin' barl..."></div> </div> </div>

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