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BEAN BLOSSOM by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE

First Line: GO YOU FORWARD, IF YOU WILL
Last Line: NOW THE BEANFIELD'S BREATHING.

GO you forward, if you will,
Go you forward, if you can;
I am all for standing still,
Here to love a lovely plan.
Go you forward, if you will,
Hopes of praise and lordship wreathing;
I stay here, to have my fill,
Now the beanfield's breathing.

If you linger, only sigh;
If you linger, only dream
Heaven itself is floating by
In a blossom-bearing stream.
If you linger, only sigh
Fancies of so fair a wreathing
As can fitly take the sky
Now the beanfield's breathing.



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