Happy Valentine's Day everyone! In honor of this fabulous holiday, I will spare you my dribble tonight and post one of my all time favorite poems. I have no idea who wrote it, but I would love to know....can anyone tell me?
The Lane
"How far will you go with me, my love?
To the stile, or the bridge, or the great oak tree?
The lane is a lonely and fearsome place,
And there’s no one journeying there but me."
She smiled at the stile with a sweet disdain;
She scoffed at the bridge and the great oak-tree;
And looked me full in the eyes and said,
"I will go to the end of the lane with thee."
Then I loved her anew with a strange fierce love,
As high as the stars and as deep as the sea;
She would share my heaven and share my hell!
She would go to the end of the lane with me.
Be Well!!
3 comments:
I looked on Granger's today; unfortunately, I didn't get anything.
Thanks for trying! I have looked everywhere...! I got it from a book I had about 25 years ago...I can't find the book now and I forgot who wrote it! Isn't it great though?!
I like it!
I'm wondering if it's a Draper. I found the reference on a Draper family tree page, but I can't see the poem. It's there--at least in part, but it's one of those goofy ones where you have to scroll CLEAR through about 73 pages of genealogy to get where you're going and then you STILL miss it, in spite of highlighting the terms.
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