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 INNISFREEby 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.
In case anyone is interested, we're doing something similar for Geography at The Map Guy http://themapguy.blogspot.com
Posted by: Love2learn Mom | January 18, 2006 at 09:02 AM
Hi. Sorry if this is a little off topic but I was so excited to find out that you have a blog! :) I love the two new "Little House" series' that you're writing (Martha and Charolette) and was wondering when books 5+ for both of them were due out? The last books came out in 2003 I believe and although I only bought them (the first 4 for both) this past Fall 2005 I instantly fell in love with them, maybe even more so than with the original series. Please tell me a release date for new books is in the NEAR future? :)
Posted by: Julia Lane | January 18, 2006 at 03:47 PM