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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=413327" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Earth Waxeth Old.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When yellow-lock'd and crystal ey'd<br>I dream'd green woods among;<br>Where tall trees wav'd from side to side,<br>And in their green breasts deep and wide,<br>I saw the building blue jay hide,<br>O, then the earth was young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winds were fresh and brave and bold,<br>The red sun round and strong;<br>No prophet voice chill, loud and cold,<br>Across my woodland dreamings roll'd,<br>'The green earth waxeth sere and old,<br>That once was fair and young!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw in scarr'd and knotty bole,<br>The fresh'ning of the sap;<br>When timid spring gave first small dole,<br>Of sunbeams thro' bare boughs that stole,<br>I saw the bright'ning blossoms roll,<br>From summer's high pil'd lap.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And where an ancient oak tree lay<br>The forest stream across,<br>I mus'd above the sweet shrill spray,<br>I watch'd the speckl'd trout at play,<br>I saw the shadows dance and sway<br>On ripple and on moss.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I pull'd the chestnut branches low,<br>As o'er the stream they hung,<br>To see their bursting buds of snow--<br>I heard the sweet spring waters flow--<br>My heart and I we did not know<br>But that the earth was young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I joy'd in solemn woods to see,<br>Where sudden sunbeams clung,<br>On open space of mossy lea,<br>The violet and anemone,<br>Wave their frail heads and beckon me--<br>Sure then the earth was young!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I heard the fresh wild breezes birr,<br>New budded boughs among,<br>I saw the deeper tinting stir<br>In the green tassels of the fir,<br>I heard the pheasant rise and whirr,<br>Above her callow young.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the tall fresh ferns prest,<br>By scudding doe and fawn;<br>I say the grey dove's swelling breast,<br>Above the margin of her nest;<br>When north and south and east and west<br>Roll'd all the red of dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">At eventide at length I lay,<br>On grassy pillow flung;<br>I saw the parting bark of day,<br>With crimson sails and shrouds all gay,<br>With golden fires drift away,<br>The billowy clouds among.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I saw the stately planets sail<br>On that blue ocean wide;<br>I saw blown by some mystic gale,<br>Like silver ship in elfin tale,<br>That bore some damsel rare and pale,<br>The moon's slim crescent glide.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And ev'ry throb of spring<br>The rust'ling boughs among,<br>That filled the silver vein of brook,<br>That lit with bloom the mossy nook,<br>Cried to my boyish bosom: 'Look!<br>How fresh the earth and young!'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winds were fresh, the days as clear<br>As crystals set in gold.<br>No shape, with prophet-mantle drear,<br>Thro' those old woods came drifting near,<br>To whisper in my wond'ring ear,<br>'The green earth waxeth old.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isabella+Valancy+Crawford">Isabella Valancy Crawford</a><div class=q>
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I dream'd green woods among;
Where tall trees wav'd from side to side,
And in their green breasts deep and wide,
I saw the building blue jay hide,
O, then the earth was young!

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