. Miami woods, A golden wedding, and other poems . %it. m ©.often OTe&Mttg. THE ROLLING FORK. I. On the Rolling Fork in Hardin, Where the winds and waters chime,And sing to the listening traveler Songs full of the olden time,Stood a dwelling thrown wide open To the wanton airs of May,That stole up over sloping meadows Which stretched from its doors away—Here dotted with groves, there reaching To sunny and shady nooks,Where the elder-bloom swayd gently To the ripple of purling hrooks,And where the voices of children From blossoming thickets rang,As, with jest, and shout, and banter, From rock t
. Miami woods, A golden wedding, and other poems . %it. m ©.often OTe&Mttg. THE ROLLING FORK. I. On the Rolling Fork in Hardin, Where the winds and waters chime,And sing to the listening traveler Songs full of the olden time,Stood a dwelling thrown wide open To the wanton airs of May,That stole up over sloping meadows Which stretched from its doors away—Here dotted with groves, there reaching To sunny and shady nooks,Where the elder-bloom swayd gently To the ripple of purling hrooks,And where the voices of children From blossoming thickets rang,As, with jest, and shout, and banter, From rock to rock they sprang. II. Twas the home of an aged couple,Who many and many a year 94 A Golden Wedding. Had sown and reapd and garnerd The fruits of lifes labors hei* now there had gladly gatherd, From near and from far away,A merry troop of their kindred, And friends of an early day :For this was their Golden Wedding; And the heavens stoopd down and smiledAs sweetly and tenderly oer them, As a mother oer her of birds, and the br
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