Love’s lower boughs bend with them—but, ah me!
The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
James Whitcomb Riley.
FOOTNOTES:
[A] From “Old-Fashioned Roses,” copyright 1906. Used by special permission of the publishers, The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
“I JOURNEYED SOUTH TO MEET THE SPRING”
I JOURNEYED South to meet the Spring
To feel the soft tide’s gentle rise
That to my heart again should bring,