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The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2

Part 2 — NORAH

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I knew his house by the poplar-trees, Green and silvery in the breeze;

"A heaven-high hedge," were the words he said, "And holly-hocks, pink and white and red...."

It seemed so far from McChesney's Hall— Where first he told me about it all.

A long path runs inside from the gate,— He still can take it, early or late;

But where in the world is the path for me Except the river that runs to the sea!

Zoe Akins [1886-

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