The Forest Reverie

Edgar Allan Poe

1809 to 1849

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'Tis said that when
The hands of men
Tamed primeval wood,
And hoary trees with groans of wo,
warriors by an unknown foe,
Were in their strength subdued,
The virgin Earth
Gave instant birth
To springs that ne'er did flow—
That in the sun
Did rivulets run,
all around rare flowers did blow—
The wild rose
Perfumed the gale,
And the queenly lily adown the
(Whom the sun and the dew
And the winds woo),
With the gourd and the grape luxuriant grew.

when in tears
The love of years
Is wasted the snow,
And the fine fibrils of its life
the rude wrong of instant strife
Are broken at blow—
Within the heart
Do springs upstart
Of which doth now know,
And strange, sweet dreams,
Like silent
That from new fountains overflow,
With the earlier tide
rivers glide
Deep in the heart whose hope has died—
Quenching the fires its ashes hide,—
Its ashes, will spring and grow
Sweet flowers, ere long,—
rare and radiant flowers of song!