Child's Garden of Verses (Version 3)

<h2><SPAN name="KEEPSAKE_MILL" id="KEEPSAKE_MILL"></SPAN>KEEPSAKE MILL</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Over the borders, a sin without pardon,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Breaking the branches and crawling below,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Down by the banks of the river, we go.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Here is the mill with the humming of thunder,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Here is the sluice with the race running under&mdash;<br/></span> <span class="i14">Marvelous places, though handy to home!<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Stiller the note of the birds on the hill;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_55" id="Page_55">[55]</SPAN></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Years may go by, and the wheel in the river<br/></span> <span class="i14">Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day.<br/></span> <span class="i12">Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever<br/></span> <span class="i14">Long after all of the boys are away.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">Home from the Indies and home from the ocean,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;<br/></span> <span class="i12">Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Turning and churning that river to foam.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i12">You with the bean that I gave when we quarreled,<br/></span> <span class="i14">I with your marble of Saturday last,<br/></span> <span class="i12">Honored and old and all gaily apparelled,<br/></span> <span class="i14">Here we shall meet and remember the past.<br/></span></div> </div> <p>&nbsp;</p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_041.jpg" width-obs="250" height-obs="189" alt="Illustration" /></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_56" id="Page_56">[56]</SPAN></span></p> <div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_055.jpg" width-obs="600" height-obs="154" alt="Illustration" /></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />