Fay Inchfawn Long Poems

• 1. The Lad's Love By The Gate
  Down in the dear West Country, there's a garden where I know
  The Spring is rioting this hour, though I am far away --
  Where all the glad flower-faces are old loves of long ago,
  And each in its accustomed place is blossoming to-day.
  ...
• 2. To A Rebellious Daughter
  You call authority "a grievous thing."
  With careless hands you snap the leading string,
  And, for a frolic (so it seems to you),
  Put off the old love, and put on the new.
  ...
• 3. The Long View
  Some day of days! Some dawning yet to be
  I shall be clothed with immortality!
  
  And, in that day, I shall not greatly care
  ...
• 4. The Little House
  One yestereve, in the waning light,
  When the wind was still and the gloaming bright,
  There came a breath from a far countrie,
  And the ghost of a Little House called to me.
  ...
• 5. In Convalescence
  Not long ago, I prayed for dying grace,
  For then I thought to see Thee face to face.
  
  And now I ask (Lord, 'tis a weakling's cry)
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• 6. God Save The King
  GOD SAVE OUR GRACIOUS KING. (It seems
  The Church is full of bygone dreams.)
  
  LONG LIVE OUR NOBLE KING. (My own,
  ...
• 7. In Such An Hour
  Sometimes, when everything goes wrong:
  When days are short, and nights are long;
  When wash-day brings so dull a sky
  That not a single thing will dry.
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• 8. Little Fan
  When little Fanny came to town, I felt as I could sing!
  She were the sprackest little maid, the sharpest, pertest thing.
  Her mother were as proud as punch, and as for I -- well, there!
  I never see sich gert blue eyes, I never see sich hair!
  ...
• 9. The Daily Interview
  Such a sensation Sunday's preacher made.
  "Christian!" he cried, "what is your stock- in-trade?
  Alas! Too often nil. No time to pray;
  No interview with Christ from day to day,
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