The New England magazine . fcJD H o 224 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. PH010 BY R. M. DAYTOr THE TRYSTING-PLACE By DORA READ GOODALE Oh, come to the place of tryst, Love, The place of a hundred charms,Where the beech-tree, drest in silken vest, Spreads wide its dwells a soul in the beech-trees bole, In its dappled, gray-green stem;And hardy and brown the nuts drop down As the earth hath need of them. The stream is young as the morn, Love — The stream is young as the May;Though her path is old as Time untold, T was never hers till to-day!She still must moan on the steps of stone, Must
The New England magazine . fcJD H o 224 NEW ENGLAND MAGAZINE. PH010 BY R. M. DAYTOr THE TRYSTING-PLACE By DORA READ GOODALE Oh, come to the place of tryst, Love, The place of a hundred charms,Where the beech-tree, drest in silken vest, Spreads wide its dwells a soul in the beech-trees bole, In its dappled, gray-green stem;And hardy and brown the nuts drop down As the earth hath need of them. The stream is young as the morn, Love — The stream is young as the May;Though her path is old as Time untold, T was never hers till to-day!She still must moan on the steps of stone, Must leap to the blinding fall;But earth hath grace for a moments space When Love keeps tryst with us all.
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