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Poems

Chapter 73: FANTASY
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A varied collection of lyric and narrative verse that moves between short songs, sonnets, rondels, and longer meditative pieces. Many poems use pastoral and seasonal imagery to celebrate fields, harvest, and the sensory life of the natural world while also acknowledging the hardships and dignity of rural labor. Recurring themes include love, absence, memory, and spiritual longing, treated with formal variety and musical language. The tone alternates between celebratory, elegiac, and reflective, blending vivid description with moral and emotional observation.

FANTASY

I hear the fluttering wind, I see
The shadows on the grass.
I wish that you would come to me!
I would not let you pass!
But springing up from where I lie,
I take you in my arms, would I!
I’d tell you where white heather grows,
I’d kiss you, and I’d hold you close,
I would not let you pass!
Here, by my side, you’d watch with me
Cloud shadows on the grass.
If chance that you should come may be,
I will not let you pass!
Where the lost faerie kingdoms lie,
I’ll tell in wonder-tales—will I!
And as the brilliant fancy grows,
I’ll kiss you, and I’ll hold you close,
I will not let you pass!