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for ages I’ve wanted to put this poem on one of my blogs, but can’t rightly recall at this moment whether I’ve actually done so. at the risk of duplication, I’ll put it here now. this excerpt of a longer poem is remarkable to me simply for what it is, what it says and the way it says it. but it’s all the more remarkable for having been written by a ten-year-old, long ago in 1922.
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I shall be coming back to you From seas, rivers, sunny meadows, glens that hold secrets: I shall come back with my hands full Of light and flowers… I shall bring back things I have picked up, Traveling this road or the other, Things found by the sea or in the pinewood. There will be a pine-cone in my pocket, Grains of pink sand between my fingers. I shall tell you of a golden pheasant’s feather… Will you know me? ______________________________from I Shall Come Back by hilda conkling
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