Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers

Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers

Title: Rubiyt of Doc Sifers Author: James Whitcomb Riley Release Date: June 22, 2010 [EBook #32944] Language: English Credits: Produced by David Edwards, Therese Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) POEMS HERE AT HOME. NEGHBORLY POEMS. SKETCHES IN PROSE AND OCCASIONAL VERSES. AFTERWHILES. PIPES O' PAN (Prose and Verse). RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD. FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT. OLD-FASHIONED ROSES (English Edition). GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS. ARMAZINDY. A CHILD-WORLD. AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE. We found him in that far-away that yet to us seems near We vagrants of but yesterday when idlest youth was here, When lightest song and laziest mirth possessed us through and through, And all the dreamy summer-earth seemed drugged with morning dew: When our ambition scarce had shot a stalk or blade indeed: Yours,choked as in the garden-spot you still deferred to "weed": Mine,but a pipe half-cleared of pithas now it flats and whines In sympathetic cadence with a hiccough in the lines. Aye, even theno timely hour!the high gods did confer In our behalf:and, clothed in power, lo, came their courier Not winged with flame nor shod with wind,but ambling down the pike, Horseback, with saddlebags behind, and guise all human-like. And it was given us to see, beneath his rustic rind, A native force and mastery of such inspiring kind, That half unconsciously we made obeisance.smiling, thus His soul shone from his eyes and laid its glory over us. Though, faring still that far-away that yet to us seems near, His form, through mists of yesterday, fades from the vision here, Forever as he rides, it is in retinue divine, The hearts of all his time are his, with your hale heart and mine. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 32944
Author: Riley, James Whitcomb
Release Date: Jun 22, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Illustrator: Relyea, C. M. (Charles M.), 1863-1932