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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POEM FOR A LITTLE GIRL, by HARRIET CHADWICK TURNER
First Line: She has a certain new england primness
Last Line: Witches were hanged on salem hill.
Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Southern States; South (u.s.)
First Line: She has a certain new england primness
Last Line: Witches were hanged on salem hill.
Subject(s): Daughters; Girls; Southern States; South (u.s.)
She has a certain New England primness
From her Great-Great-Grandmother Betsey Keyes
(The portrait hangs on the wall in the parlor),
But oh, the witchery in her eyes!
Eyes that speak of a mystic southland,
Drenched with gold from a high-hung moon --
Southern nights, and a whip-poor-will calling
Ever the same heart-breaking tune.
Something there is, from her mother's mother,
All the romance of the South -- it lies
Deep within her, forever warring
With Great-Great-Grandmother Betsey Keyes.
Where will you wander, dear, my daughter?
Go where a southern sun is shining,
Pass through lanes where the air is scented
With honeysuckle and wild rose twining;
Scatter enchantment in the moonlight,
Follow the call of the whip-poor-will,
But stay away from the northern uplands --
Witches were hanged on Salem Hill.
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