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James Whitcomb Riley - The Lost PathJames Whitcomb Riley - The Lost Path
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Alone they walked--their fingers knit together,     And swaying listlessly as might a swing   Wherein Dan Cupid dangled in the weather     Of some sun-flooded afternoon of Spring.   Within the clover-fields the tickled cricket     Laughed lightly as they loitered down the lane,   And from the covert of the hazel-thicket     The squirrel peeped and laughed at them again.   The bumble-bee that tipped the lily-vases     Along the road-side in the shadows dim,   Went following the blossoms of their faces     As though their sweets must needs be shared with him.   Between the pasture bars the wondering cattle     Stared wistfully, and from their mellow bells   Shook out a welcoming whose dreamy rattle     Fell swooningly away in faint farewells.   And though at last the gloom of night fell o`er them,     And folded all the landscape from their eyes,   They only know the dusky path before them     Was leading safely on to Paradise.
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