Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ENGLAND, by J. K. MCGUINNESS


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ENGLAND, by                    
First Line: Oh, england! When your lanes are fringed with green
Last Line: The call of what was homeland long ago.
Subject(s): England; English


Oh, England! When your lanes are fringed with green;
When the faint gray of dusk has settled down
Softly, upon a countryside serene,
The far-off bells of some cathedral town
Float on the scented twilight's lazy wind
Into the drowsy shadows, and their tones,
Borne on the night, swell over seas to find
Somewhere beyond, a heart that England owns.

In the sweet silence of the fading day,
When the first flush of evening shrouds the land,
Children turn back from noisy, troubled play
To clutch their mother's reassuring hand;
And hearts attuned to peaceful chimes may know
The call of what was homeland long ago.





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