Emerald Story Book

<h3><SPAN name="GREEN_THINGS_GROWING">GREEN THINGS GROWING</SPAN></h3> <div class="poetry-container"> <div class="poetry"> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">Oh, the green things growing, the green things growing,</div> <div class="verse indent0">The faint sweet smell of the green things growing!</div> <div class="verse indent0">I should love to live, whether I smile or grieve,</div> <div class="verse indent0">Just to watch the happy life of my green things growing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">Oh, the fluttering and the pattering of those green things growing,</div> <div class="verse indent0">How they talk to each other, when none of us are knowing.</div> <div class="verse indent0">In the wonderful white by the weird moonlight,</div> <div class="verse indent0">Of the dim dreamy dawn when the cocks are crowing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse indent0">I love them so—my green things growing,</div> <div class="verse indent0">And I think they love me without any knowing;</div> <div class="verse indent0">For by many a tender touch, they comfort me so much,</div> <div class="verse indent0">With the soft mute comfort of green things growing.</div> </div> <div class="stanza"> <div class="verse right"><i>Dinah Mulock Craik.</i></div> </div> </div></div> <hr class="chap" /> <!--chapter--> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN id="Page_87"></SPAN>[87]</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />