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    • FERN HILL

      by Dylan Thomas


      Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs

      About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green,

      The night above the dingle starry,

      Time let me hail and climb

      Golden in the heydays of his eyes,

      And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns

      And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves

      Trail with daisies and barley

      Down the rivers of the windfall light.



      And as I was green and carefree, famous among the barns

      About the happy yard and singing as the farm was home,

      In the sun that is young once only,

      Time let me play and be

      Golden in the mercy of his means,

      And green and golden I was huntsman and herdsman, the calves

      Sang to my horn, the foxes on the hills barked clear and cold,

      And the sabbath rang slowly

      In the pebbles of the holy streams.



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      THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE
      by William Butler Yeats

      I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
      And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
      Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee,
      And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

      And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
      Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
      There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
      And evening full of the linnet's wings.

      I will arise and go now, for always night and day
      I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
      While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,
      I hear it in the deep heart's core.



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    December 08, 2005

    Books to Love, Part 3

    188975836101_aa_scmzzzzzzz_Niamh and the Hermit by Emily C. A. Snyder. For your Tolkien fans. Lovely, lyrical high fantasy about a princess whose beauty carries a terrible price and the valiant hermit whose love for her sends him on a perilous quest. And for your Narnia lovers: Charming the Moon by the same author.

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    I really need to take a look at this book. Several years ago, when I first started homeschooling (actually, it was before I started homeschooling ... I was asking lots of questions ....) I was on an e-list and Emily Snyder's mother was one of the voices of wisdom there that I came to trust. She was funny, charming, and so down-to-earth. I liked her immensely. I can't wait to find Emily's book.

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