| If I might live by the river
And watch the ships come down, Passing the bend and the gleaming bridge On their stately way to town; If every day of the livelong year My eyes that sight might see, I'd live like a lord by the river And the king should envy me. If I might live by the river When the ships come in at dawn, ___ White with the clinging river mists, Haggard with night, and wan ___ I'd watch till the patient night was spent, And the weary moon gone down ___ Till the lights went out, toward morning, Across the river in town. If I might live by the river And watch the ships go by, In all of this winsome width of world Who'd happier be than I? Oh, the king may keep his men o' war For the good of the royal crown, If he'll let me live by the river Where the inland ships come down! |
The Call of Kansas and Other Poems
Esther M. (Clark) Hill
(Cedar Rapids: Torch Press. __)
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