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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by FLORENCE SMITH First Line: How pleasant it is that always Last Line: Heaven is older than you! | |||
HOW PLEASANT it is that always There's somebody older than you -- Someone to pet and caress you, Someone to scold you, too! Someone to call you a baby, To laugh at you when you're wise; Someone to care when you're sorry, To kiss the tears from your eyes; When life has begun to be weary, And youth to melt like the dew, To know, like the little children Somebody's older than you. The path cannot be so lonely, For someone has trod it before; The golden gates are the nearer, That someone stands at the door. I can think of nothing sadder Than to feel, when days are few, There's nobody left to lean on, Nobody older than you! The younger ones may be tender To the feeble steps and slow; But they can't talk the old times over -- Alas, how should they know! 'Tis a romance to them -- a wonder You were ever a child at play; But the dear ones waiting in heaven Know it is all as you say. I know that the great All-Father Loves us, and the little ones too; Keep only childlike-hearted -- Heaven is older than you! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMBER MUSIC: 1 by JAMES JOYCE AT THE CARNIVAL by ANNE SPENCER THE LORD OF THOULOUSE; A LEGEND OF LANGUEDOC by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THE ASSUMPTION by JOHN BEAUMONT THE CHASE OF THE METAPHOR by RICHARD BLACKMORE A RHAPSODY by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: FAREWELL DARK by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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