<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=416672" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>June At Woodruff</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out at Woodruff Place--afar<br>From the city's glare and jar,<br>With the leafy trees, instead<br>Of the awnings, overhead;<br>With the shadows cool and sweet,<br>For the fever of the street;<br>With the silence, like a prayer,<br>Breathing round us everywhere.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gracious anchorage, at last,<br>From the billows of the vast<br>Tide of life that comes and goes,<br>Whence and where nobody knows--<br>Moving, like a skeptic's thought,<br>Out of nowhere into naught.<br>Touch and tame us with thy grace,<br>Placid calm of Woodruff Place!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Weave a wreath of beechen leaves<br>For the brow that throbs and grieves<br>O'er the ledger, bloody-lined,<br>'Neath the sun-struck window-blind!<br>Send the breath of woodland bloom<br>Through the sick man's prison room,<br>Till his old farm-home shall swim<br>Sweet in mind to hearten him!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Out at Woodruff Place the Muse<br>Dips her sandal in the dews,<br>Sacredly as night and dawn<br>Baptize lilied grove and lawn:<br>Woody path, or paven way--<br>She doth haunt them night and day,--<br>Sun or moonlight through the trees,<br>To her eyes, are melodies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Swinging lanterns, twinkling clear<br>Through night-scenes, are songs to her--<br>Tinted lilts and choiring hues,<br>Blent with children's glad halloos;<br>Then belated lays that fade<br>Into midnight's serenade--<br>Vine-like words and zithern-strings<br>Twined through ali her slumberings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Blessed be each hearthstone set<br>Neighboring the violet!<br>Blessed every rooftree prayed<br>Over by the beech's shadel<br>Blessed doorway, opening where<br>We may look on Nature--there<br>Hand to hand and face to face--<br>Storied realm, or Woodruff Place.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=James+Whitcomb+Riley">James Whitcomb Riley</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=416672" data-title="June At Woodruff de James Whitcomb Riley" data-description="Out at Woodruff Place--afar From the city's glare and jar, With the leafy trees, instead Of the awnings, overhead; With the shadows cool and sweet, For the fever of the street; With the silence, like a prayer, Breathing round us everywhere. Graci..."></div> </div> </div>

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