The Call Of The Green

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Title:     The Call Of The Green
Author: Laurence Alma-Tadema [More Titles by Alma-Tadema]

O who would dwell in the dingy town
When June is fair and green?
O who would stay in the chimneyed town
Where brooks are never seen?
Come! roses blow: sweet flower
Will snow the virgin's-bower:
The shaded lane, the woodland wild,
Are better both for man and child.

O who would live in the narrow street
When skies are broad and free?
O who would bide in the stony street
When the sun is on the sea?
Come! leave the dust and hasten
To the breath of winds that chasten:
The surging waves, the starry span,
Are better both for child and man.

Fairseat.

[The end]
Laurence Alma-Tadema's poem: Call Of The Green

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