Eliot, Samuel, 1821-1898 · Boston : [J. Wilson & Son, University Press] · leaf 341
■#-»r THE BETTER LAND. •• 1 hear thee speak of the better land ;Thou callst its children a happy band;Mother ! oh, where is that radiant shore?Shall we not seek it, and weep no more ? … Is it where the flower of the orange blows.And the tire-flies dance through the myrtleboughs?— Not there, not there. \w\ child ! • Is it where the feathery palm-trees rise,?;, And the date grows ripe under sunny skies?^/ Or midst the green islands of glittering seas,Where fragrant forests perfume…
Children's poetry
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