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George Essex Evans - The Grey RoadGeorge Essex Evans - The Grey Road
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A sun-flash on his mounting wing,     A wild note soaring high— The lark is up, the minstrel king,     The poet of the sky. To thrill, to sing of Youth and Spring     Those golden numbers flowed.             What message then             Has he for men     Who tread the long grey road? Knee-deep in grass the cattle stand,     The river winds along, And chants through sunny meadow land     A low mysterious song. Ah! sunlit vale and lover’s tale     Youth’s day is quickly gone—             Past current-beat             And meadow-sweet     The grey road stretches on! Grim bastions frowning down below—     And rising, tier on tier, Sublime, and crowned with ageless snow     The awful peaks appear. The heights belong unto the strong     Who scale, by crags untried,             The great cliffs face—             But at its base     The grey road turns aside! No hope in Heaven, no minstrel strain,     No vales where summer shone A leaden sky, a silent plain,     The grey road stretching on. O Christ, who trod the thorny path,     And bore the bitter load,             Have mercy then             On weary men     Who tread the long grey road!
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