The Poetical Works of Jonathan E. Hoag/To Our Friends in the Sunny South
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To Our Friends in The Sunny South
(Alexander McGeoch and Family)
A silent home beside the way we see,
With sleeping lawn o'erhung by leafless tree;
All sombre 'neath the chilling shroud forlorn,
While Nature waits the resurrection morn!
With sleeping lawn o'erhung by leafless tree;
All sombre 'neath the chilling shroud forlorn,
While Nature waits the resurrection morn!
While you enjoy the bending willow's shade,
And revel in the palm grove's verdant glade,
Methinks a sniff of ocean breeze would bring
Your little Muse a merry song to sing.
And revel in the palm grove's verdant glade,
Methinks a sniff of ocean breeze would bring
Your little Muse a merry song to sing.
And when again the swallows homeward fly,
We'll greet you as in many springs gone by.
We'll hail our friends with April's earliest flowers,
And joy to feel their pulsing palms in ours.
We'll greet you as in many springs gone by.
We'll hail our friends with April's earliest flowers,
And joy to feel their pulsing palms in ours.
1917