School Poems: An Old Man’s Thought of School by Walt Whitman

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 5:33 pm on Jul 24, 1979

AN old man’s thought of School;
An old man, gathering youthful memories and blooms, that youth itself cannot.
Now only do I know you!
O fair auroral skies! O morning dew upon the grass!
And these I see—these sparkling eyes,
These stores of mystic meaning—these young lives,
Building, equipping, like a fleet of ships—immortal ships!
Soon to sail out over [...]


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