Arts & Sciences
To Joseph Jefferson
From The Poems of Henry van Dyke (1925)
Arts & Sciences
We met on Nature's stage,
And May had set the scene,
With bishop-caps standing in delicate ranks,
And violets blossoming over the banks,
While the brook ran full between.
The waters rang your call,
With frolicsome waves a-twinkle,--
They knew you as boy, and they knew you as man,
And every wave, as it merrily ran,
Cried, "Enter Rip van Winkle!"
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Dyke, Henry van. “To Joseph Jefferson.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/100/.
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Dyke, Henry van. “To Joseph Jefferson.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/100/.
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