In Days Gone

In Days Gone written by William Henry Davies

Nature Poems (1908)

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I had a sweet companion once,
   And in the meadows we did roam;
And in the one-star night returned
   Together home.

When Bees did roar like midget bulls,
   Or quietly rob nodding Flowers -
We two did roam the fields so green,
   In Summer hours.

She like the Rill did laugh, when he
   Plays in the quiet woods alone;
She was as red as Summer's rose -
   The first one blown.

Her hair as soft as any moss
   That running water still keeps wet;
And her blue eye - it seemed as if
   A Violet

Had in a Lily's centre grown,
   To see the blue, and white around -
'Twas tender as the Glowworm's light
   On a lost mound.

And, like the face of a sweet well
   Buried alive in a stone place -
So calm, so fresh, so soft, so bright
   Was that child's face.

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