| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Across the Fields |
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| ACROSS the fields like swallows fly | |
| Sweet thoughts and sad of days gone by; | |
| From Life’s broad highway turned away, | |
| Like children, Thought and Memory play | |
| Nor heed Time’s scythe though grass be high. | 5 |
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| Beneath the blue and shoreless sky | |
| Time is but told when seedlings dry | |
| By Love’s light breath are blown, like spray, | |
| Across the fields. | |
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| Now comes the scent of fallen hay, | 10 |
| And flowers bestrew the foot-worn clay, | |
| And summer breathes a passing sigh | |
| As westward rolls the day’s gold eye, | |
| And Time with Labor ends his day | |
| Across the fields. | 15 |
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