Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ACROSS THE YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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First Line: Across the years, I hear your laughter sweet
Last Line: You on the terrace there above the street!
Subject(s): Time


ACROSS the years, I hear your laughter sweet,
I see your faces through a mist of tears,
Dear comrades of the happy, school-girl years!
I hear the echo of your tripping feet,
As on the terrace there we used to meet
In the soft dusk! In happy laughing pairs,
We walked and talked and dreamed—and knew no cares,
Upon the terrace there above the street!

Ah, yes! we wandered there and talked and dreamed—
A radiant wonder then the future seemed!
We planned what we should do when school was done,
And turned to life, as flowers to the sun!
How slow time seemed to our impatient feet
That trod the terrace there above the street!

Oh, comrades in the dusk of memory,
Where are you now? has Life been good to you
Or Death? Have all your girlish dreams come true?
On gay young faces that come back to me,
What lines are written now, if one could see?
And is the laughter hushed that once I knew?
Ah, do you see it there in memory, too,
The terrace where we walked so happily?

And these gay feet that walked it once, dream-shod,
What paths of care and trouble have they trod?
How bruised upon the stones of life's rough ways,
Dear young companions of golden days?
Across the years, I send a song to greet
You on the terrace there above the street!





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