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BY the slowly flowing river	A
Lies the old shadowed walk	B
Where the lovers two and two	C
Ere the falling of the dew	C
Of the sweetest thing on earth in the soft shadows talk	B
For though honey has a sweetness	D
As the tasting palate knows	E
Yet young love is sweeter sure	F
Than the honey pale and pure	F
That the brown bee gets from the heart of the rose	E
Though there's music in the waters	G
And the singing of the birds	H
Yet a richer music dwells	I
In the tale each couple tells	I
In that scene of green enchantment as they put their hearts in words	H
Though they have not throne or sceptre	A
They are kings and queens in truth	J
And their realm is all their own	K
And they rule in it alone	K
For the wonder and the splendour of the world belong to youth	J
Neither man nor maid may hasten	L
Neither man nor maid may baulk	B
The river on its way	M
As it murmurs day by day	M
By the singing scented places of the old Lovers' Walk	B
There the wattle has its season	L
And the lily flames awhile	N
And the pink boronia blooms	O
And the orchid lights the glooms	O
Of the deep green gully and the far forest aisle	N
There the wattle fades and withers	O
And the lily on its stalk	B
But new couples wreathed and crowned	P
Through the seasons round and round	P
Dream their dreams link their hands on the old Lovers' Walk	B
There they tell the one tale over	A
And they plight again their troth	Q
And they bend above the stream	R
In the sunset's dying gleam	R
It might seem the river cares not yet the river mirrors both	Q
Oh how many happy lovers	O
Has that gleaming river glassed	S
Oh what folk alight with joy	T
Dancing girl and glowing boy	T
Youth and Beauty linked together in the dim sweet past	S
Now a frond goes down the current	U
Now a flower the eddies turn	V
But the lovers never sigh	W
As they watch them drifting by	W
Nor bethink them of the moments that are like to flower and fern	V
Yet a hungry sea is calling	B
Though a distant sea it be	X
And the lovers' golden hours	O
Are as drifting ferns and flowers	O
And a river not their river takes them onward to the sea	X
Oh the splendour and the raptures	X
And the hours of rose and rhyme	Y
Oh the passion thirst that sips	X
At the fount of rosy lips	X
Oh the slowly moving waters of the river like to Time	Y
As the fading of the wattle	Z
Or the lily on its stalk	B
Or the dewdrop from the grass	X
So the glory goes alas	X
From the sweet dreams dreamt on the old Lovers' Walk	B

Roderic Quinn

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