My life has not reached noon,
Yet I have grown aweary of the way
Pursued but in keeping doubts at bay
That conquer late or soon.
How can I flee myself?
To try, I’ll hie me to the hawthorn dale
And lie awhile in beds of primrose pale
To sport with childhood’s elf.
There will I laugh at time,
I’ll banish care and hold high holiday
With comrade sprites that in gone months of May
Shared in the golden prime.
I hurried, sped by hopes,
To that loved vale of my nativity.
And up and down I looked all wistfully.
Scanning the mounds and slopes.
The flowers smiled, as then.
In many a time-defying colony.
And birds, as then, were singing lustily-
But there were other men !
Though the same houses stood,
No torm to take my hand towards me did haste –
All, all had fled into time’s trackless waste
Or space’s amplitude.
Yet memory lives still –
I shook some blossoms from a snow-clad tree
And lay me down in state right royally
To dream of ghosts at will.
Youth’s comrades filled the air
With laugh and shout that made the hillsides ring,
Child-sweethearts coyly unto me did sing
And twined for me their hair.
All Nature was so gay
With insect murmur, colours everywhere,
That I forgot that years had passed of care ;
That wondrous day of May !
Thus when the world is cold
I close my eyes and sweep the warmer past,
Then do I feel my ills are not so vast –
That ‘mid life’s dross there’s gold.
(Charles Granville)
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