Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CLASS HYMN, by ROBERT FROST


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First Line: There is a nook among the alders
Last Line: "as thought-stones stir our heart's ""farewell!"
Subject(s): Commencement; Graduation


There is a nook among the alders
Still sleeping to the cat-bird's "Hush";
Below, a long stone-bridge is bending
Above a runnel's silent rush.

A dreamer hither often wanders
And gathers many a snow-white stone;
He weighs them, poised upon his fingers,
Divining each one's silvery tone.

He drops them! When the stream makes music,
Fair visions with its vault-voice swell:
And so, for us, the future rises,
As thought-stones stir our heart's "Farewell!"





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