As told to a child
As I went out a Crow
In a low voice said, 'Oh,
I was looking for you.
How do you do?

He is that fallen lance that lies
That lies unlifted now, come dew,
But still lies pointed as it ploug
If we who sight along it round the
See nothing worthy to have been it

I left you in the morning,
And in the morning glow,
You walked a way beside me
To make me sad to go.
Do you know me in the gloaming,

He halted in the wind, and - what
Far in the maples, pale, but not a
He stood there bringing March aga
And yet too ready to believe the m
'Oh, that’s the Paradise-in-bloom

It went many years,
But at last came a knock,
And I thought of the door
With no lock to lock.
I blew out the light,

He gave the solid rail a hateful k
From far away there came an answer
And then another tick. He knew th
His hate had roused an engine up t
He wished when he had had the trac

All crying, ‘We will go with you,
The foliage follow him, leaf and s
But a sleep oppresses them as they
And they end by bidding them as th
And they end by bidding him stay w

NOW that they’ve got it settled w
I’m going to tell them something t
They’ve got it settled wrong, and
Flattered I must be to have two t
To make a present of me to each ot

Out of the mud two strangers came
And caught me splitting wood in th
And one of them put me off my aim
By hailing cheerily “Hit them har
I knew pretty well why he had drop

Out walking in the frozen swamp on
I paused and said, 'I will turn b
No, I will go on farther—and we s
The hard snow held me, save where
One foot went through. The view w