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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ORCHARD, by HORACE HOLLEY
First Line: I stood within an orchard during rain
Last Line: Have been a moment's friend to all alive.
Variant Title(s): In A Garden
Subject(s): Orchards; Rain
First Line: I stood within an orchard during rain
Last Line: Have been a moment's friend to all alive.
Variant Title(s): In A Garden
Subject(s): Orchards; Rain
I stood within an orchard during rain
Uncovering to the drops my aching brow:
O joyous fancy, to imagine now
I slip, with trees and clouds, the social chain,
Alone with nature, naught to lose or gain
Nor even to become; no, just to be
A moment's personal essence, wholly free
From needs that mold the heart to forms of pain.
Arise, I cried, and celebrate the hour!
Acclaim serener gladness; if it fail,
New courage, nobler vision, will survive
That I have known my kinship to the flower,
My brotherhood with rain, and in this vale
Have been a moment's friend to all alive.
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