The Housatonic
Deep friendly river, friend to dreamer worn By life where slender hopes are often torn, You soothe the aching throat that yearns to cry, When dreamers see their dreams decaying, die. How saddened have we lain beside your breast Perceiving how your gathering wavelets crest, Comparing them to dreams that cresting, wain, When over time, hopes crash, with cold disdain. The quest is solitude within the shade, Where prismic patterns blissfully pervade, Where all the wind-bathed woods abound With sun glow! Leaf glow! Thirsty, gurgling sound. Your tumbled water, rainbowed in the sun, Goes shushing on, your conquest never won, While breeze-sylphs warm caress a saddened brow, And lay, instead, the solitude of Now. From distant meadowed valley wafts the call, Of winged heart that would his love enthrall, As ripples rippling cool rush past your bed, Where I, in coming, thought my Soul was dead. Written December 31st, 2001 © on Dec 30 2001 11:52 PM PST, Carole Dudley 0 • 12
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"Deep friendly river, friend to dreamer worn..."