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Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889

Two Pictures

By Annie Douglas (Green) Robinson (1842–1913)

[Born in Plymouth, N. H., 1842. Died in Brattleboro, Vt., 1913. Poems by “Marian Douglas.”]

AN OLD farm-house, with meadows wide,

And sweet with clover on each side;

A bright-eyed boy, who looks from out

The door with woodbine wreathed about,

And wishes his one thought all day,—

“Oh, if I could but fly away

From this dull spot the world to see,

How happy, happy, happy,

How happy I should be!”

Amid the city’s constant din,

A man who round the world has been,

Who, ’mid the tumult and the throng,

Is thinking, thinking all day long,—

“Oh, could I only tread once more

The field-path to the farm-house door,

The old green meadows could I see,

How happy, happy, happy,

How happy I should be!”