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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEALING, by ETHEL GODFREY LOUD
First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise
Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine.
Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures
First Line: From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise
Last Line: If once he knows the healing woods of maine.
Subject(s): Forests; Healing; Life; Woods; Cures
From all the hustle, bustle, nerve-wear, noise
Of Wall St. to the silent Woods of Maine,
From all the touch with Man that frets and cloys
To touch with Nature -- nurse of flesh and brain --
We come for healing. How the wine-clear air
Brings cleansing to us with each whiff we breathe!
How all the sunlit forest coolly fair
Contrasts with streets where crowds and traffic seethe!
What prima-donna greater than the thrush?
What French cuisine can give such fresh brook-trout?
What park can show a foliage as lush
As all the forest rising roundabout?
Man feels a Man. Life's not been lived in vain
If once he knows the healing Woods of Maine.
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