Edith Nesbit Poems

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When I lived in the village of youth
There were lilies in all the orchards,
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I KNOW a garden where white lilies grow,
Under the grey sweet-laden apple boughs;
It is a garden where the roses blow,
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LEAVE me alone, for August's sleepy charm
Is on me, and I will not break the spell;
My head is on the mighty Mother's arm:
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EVOLVING, changing, onwards still we press--
We must advance, invent, construct, possess;
No matter what a price we have to pay,
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THE monastery towers, as pure and fair
As virgin vows, reached up white hands to Heaven;
The walls, to guard the hidden heart of prayer,
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If you and I
Had wings to fly -
Great wings like seagulls' wings -
How would we soar
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Go, since you must, but, Dearest, know
That, Honour having bid you go,
Your honour, if your life be spent,
Shall have a costly monument
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AND you could leave me now--
After the first remembered whispered vow
Which sings for ever and ever in my ears--
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'WILL you not walk the woods with me?
The shafts of sunlight burn
On many a golden-crested tree
And many a russet fern.
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I WENT back to our home to-day
That still its robe of roses wore;
My feet took the old easy way,
And led me to our door.
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