Be
it on a nobler day
we
choose to search the trident ways
of
hopes and schemes that thread the steams
of
many a nobler seam.
We
walked on ways that told of days
when
should a certain fervent shock
be
cold or old for withering lock
within
and which the ways we walked.
Could
it in the ways we see
for
lovely hope or gallanter thing
that
kept us on our groping ways
for
could we see a fervent walk,
threaded
scheme, or templed ways
that
often smiled on nobler days.
Rainbough
Bouchard
copyright
1998
*-its quite all right that's what I thought you were thinking.