Handful of lavender / Lizette Woodworth Reese [electronic text]

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Reese, Lizette Woodworth, 1856-1935

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Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company

1893

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BLACKBERRY BLOSSOMS

 LONG sunny lane and pike, white, delicate, The blackberry blossoms are ablow, ablow, Hiding the rough-hewn rails 'neath drift of snow, Fresh-fallen, late. The opening pasture gate Brushes a hundred of them loose, and shakes Them down into the tall delicious grass: Sometimes a little sudden wind doth pass, And all the air is full of flying flakes. It seems but yesterday they blew as sweet Down old school ways, and thrilled me with delight; And reaching out for them, I heard the fleet, Glad creek go spinning o'er its pebbles bright. Ah, well! Ah, me! Even now, long as they last, I am a child again; Joy holds me fast.