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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEMORIES, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, when the grind of the city beats on my heart
Last Line: To a garden and a tree in a place of light.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories
First Line: Sometimes, when the grind of the city beats on my heart
Last Line: To a garden and a tree in a place of light.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories
Sometimes, when the grind of the city beats on my heart
Like a brazen hammer with terrible blows,
I think of a lost garden I knew in my boyhood,
Filled with the scent of the rose.
And sometimes, when the clamor of life seems endless,
And my soul is bowed with its weight of pain,
I think of an old, still apple tree in blossom
At the end of a hawthorn lane.
Oh, do not smile at such simple memories!
They keep us young, they keep the man-heart right.
And sometime we will all go back contented,
To a Garden and a Tree in a place of light.
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