Edward Cracroft Lefroy: His Life and Poems including a Reprint of Echoes from Theocritus: By Wilfred Austin Gill: With a Critical Estimate of the Sonnets by the late John Addington Symonds |
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AFTER TEN YEARS
A league a-field with no intent of turning,
(One league or twain—God knows the world is wide,)
And fifty thoughts in fifty channels churning,
Ten years agone my fancy loved to ride;
The boy's young heart within me ever yearning
For stranger-truths to homely hearts denied;
There is so much that tempts us to the learning,
When Health's the horse and Youth is firm astride!
But Time is fleet for those who play the rover,
And lengthy jaunts corrupt to weary whiles;
'Tis strange to find, now riding days are over,
How great a space a little thought beguiles;
Enough at noon to amble through the clover,
And take the poppy-heads to mark the miles.
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