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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CANTICLE, by WILLIAM GRIFFITH Poet's Biography
First Line: Devoutly worshipping the oak
Last Line: And hurries from the hill.
Subject(s): Contentment; Prayer; Summer
First Line: Devoutly worshipping the oak
Last Line: And hurries from the hill.
Subject(s): Contentment; Prayer; Summer
DEVOUTLY worshipping the oak
Wherein the barred owl stares,
The little feathered forest folk
Are praying sleepy prayers:
Praying the summer to be long
And drowsy to the end,
And daily full of sun and song,
That broken hopes may mend.
Praying the golden age to stay
Until the whippoorwill
Appoints a windy moving-day,
And hurries from the hill.
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