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First Line: Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy
Last Line: In silence stumbling through the glade.
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy;
Robins whistling clear enough
From mossy woodpiles near enough, but where's my joy?

Blithe in truth looks frost's blue eye
And lovely blue the brook flits by,
Red-faced sun and jewelled sloe
And jest of old crow answering crow would all wake joy;

But old time slyly all the while
Checks the song and dims the smile,
And sense so eager turns to shade,
In silence stumbling through the glade.





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