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.
Aren't you gonna tell us what songs they are? For research purposes, of course. Not so we could annoy anyone with them. ;)
Posted by: Carrie K. | June 23, 2006 at 11:10 AM
I'm with Carrie. I'm curious what the two songs were.
Posted by: Henry Cate | June 23, 2006 at 03:28 PM
LOL!
Posted by: Cay | June 23, 2006 at 07:49 PM
Very cute!
Posted by: Katrina | June 24, 2006 at 06:39 AM
Lemme guess - Little Bunny Foo Foo??
Posted by: Laurie | June 24, 2006 at 08:15 AM
"This is the Song That Never Ends?"
Posted by: patty (awesmom on flickr) | June 24, 2006 at 11:28 AM
I thought it was just my children! They sing "I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes.
(pause for beat)
I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves and this is how it goes.
(pause for beat)
Repeat until Mother shrieks.
The problem is that their tune is NOT monotone, it's actually kind of catchy and then it goes through my head the rest of the day. A grievious act of cranial terrorism, IMO.
Posted by: deputyheadmistress | June 24, 2006 at 03:18 PM
We get the exact same song as the deputy headmistress. I'm guessing she is in the US and we are in the UK, thereby proving that it is sufficiently infectious to spread internationally. Why????
Posted by: Kathryn | June 25, 2006 at 12:23 PM