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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIGHWAYS, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS
First Line: Who's learned the lure of trodden ways
Last Line: But cannot love a town.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Towns; Wine
First Line: Who's learned the lure of trodden ways
Last Line: But cannot love a town.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Towns; Wine
Who's learned the lure of trodden ways
And walked them up and down,
May love a steeple in a mist,
But cannot love a town.
Who's worn a bit of purple once
Can never, never lie
All smothered in a little box
When stars are in the sky.
Who's sipped old port in Venice glass
May thirst for better brew --
He's drunk an amber wine of sun
And wet his mouth with dew!
Who's ground the grist of trodden ways --
The gray dust and the brown --
May love red tiling two miles off --
But cannot love a town.
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