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The skies are blue and the sun is out	A
and the grass is green and soft	B
And the old charm's back in the apple tree	C
and it calls a boy aloft	D
And the same low voice that the old don't hear	E
but the care free youngsters do	F
Is calling them to the fields and streams	G
and the joys that once I knew	F
And if youth be wild desire for play	H
and care is the mark of men	I
Beneath the skin that Time has tanned	J
I'm a madcap youngster then	I
	-
Far richer than king with his crown of gold	K
and his heavy weight of care	L
Is the sunburned boy with his stone bruised feet	M
and his tousled shock of hair	L
For the king can hear but the cry of hate	N
or the sickly sound of praise	O
And lost to him are the voices sweet	M
that called in his boyhood days	O
Far better than ruler with pomp and power	P
and riches is it to be	C
The urchin gay in his tattered clothes	Q
that is climbing the apple tree	C
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Oh once I heard all the calls that come	R
to the quick glad ears of boys	S
And a certain spot on the river bank	T
told me of its many joys	S
And certain fields and certain trees	U
were loyal friends to me	C
And I knew the birds and I owned a dog	V
and we both could hear and see	C
Oh never from tongues of men have dropped	W
such messages wholly glad	X
As the things that live in the great outdoors	Y
once told to a little lad	X
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And I'm sorry for him who cannot hear	E
what the tall trees have to say	H
Who is deaf to the call of a running stream	Z
and the lanes that lead to play	H
The boy that shins up the faithful elm	A2
or sprawls on a river bank	T
Is more richly blessed with the joys of life	B2
than any old man of rank	T
For youth is the golden time of life	B2
and this battered old heart of mine	C2
Beats fast to the march of its old time joys	S
when the sun begins to shine	C2

Edgar Albert Guest

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