Poems on the topic: lad

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Arch Alfred McKillen

The Old Sea Wall

Oh, you who go hurrying, worrying by With never a cry or a call, Saw you a lad who was standing here On the crest of the old sea wall? I saw him last night in the twilight As the long low breakers rolled, And across the bay in the chapel An evening bell was tolled. And we looked at each other a moment And then from each other we turned, But I read in his eyes of a longing That a merciless world had spurned. Oh, have you no answer to make me, All you who go hastening past, And though I am late will none tell me Where he was standing last?
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ContemplativeArch Alfred McKillen

The Bird, the Lad and Me

The sky was touched with tints of morn, A wind was in the trees, I lay in bed awakened By the murmur of the leaves. I listened to the chirping Of the first-awakened bird, And, his leather heels a-clicking, Some lad off to work I heard. Then my thoughts to sleep returning Wondered briefly, of us three, What brave paths the fates have destined For the bird, the lad and me.

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