Sunday, October 1, 2023

Are You an Old Soul? - poem

 

Lawrence Hall, HSG

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Dispatches for the Colonial Office

 

Are You an Old Soul?

 

                                                                                           “…but lay thy sword aside

And lean upon a peasant’s staff”

 

-Wordsworth

 

We have it on the highest Authority

That we are souls on lengthy pilgrimage

But I don’t know if we are old or not

And did you bring along something to read?

 

Sometimes we march in step along the route

At other times we seem to fly in pairs

Or sometimes trudge a lonely path in the night

And hear the music of a thousand spheres

 

Sometimes I’m old, but then you smile just so

And I am young – there’s magic in your soul

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