A Holiday Poem by Lizette Woodworth Reese

A Holiday

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Along the pastoral ways I go,
To get the healing of the trees,
The ghostly news the hedges know;
To hive me honey like the bees,
Against the time of snow.

The common hawthorn that I see,
Beside the sunken wall astir,
Or any other blossoming tree,
Is each God’s fair white gospeller,
His book upon the knee.

A gust-broken bough; a pilfered nest;
Rumors of orchard or of bin;
The thrifty things of east and west,—
The countryside becomes my Inn,
And I its happy guest.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Ratnakar Mandlik 20 March 2019

" Countryside becomes my inn" . Grand conceptualization along with excellent description of nature's manifestations. A lovely life song.

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Colleen Courtney 19 May 2014

Love the last two lines! Sums up the whole poem perfectly!

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