Burroughs, John (1837-1921) 4 stanza poem, "In Blooming Orchards"
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04353.13 Author/Creator: Burroughs, John (1837-1921) Place Written: s.l. Type: Document signed Date: 1919/01/26 Pagination: 1 p. 30.6 x 20.9 cm Order a Copy
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In Blooming Orchards
Again I walk 'mid orchard bloom
And linger long with willing feet,
I walk with sighs, but not with gloom
For in my heart is ample room
For pensive thoughts & musings sweet,
Ah, pensive thoughts to these I'm prone,
When strolling 'neath the pink white boughs!
I breathe the fragrance, hear the drone
Of eager bees that come from home,
In forest-near, or gardened house.
My thoughts go homeward with the bees;
I dream of youth & happier days-
Of orchards where amid the trees
I loitered free from Time's degrees,
And loved the birds + learned their ways,
Oh, orchard thoughts & orchard sighs,
Ye, too, are born of life's regrets!
The apple bloom I see with eyes
That have grown sad in growing wise,
Through May, that manhood ne'er forgets.
John Burroughs
Jany 26, 1919.
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