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Posted on 07/31/2010 10:44:29 PM PDT by JustAmy
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Sorry I thought the link would be activated. I don’t know how to get it activated now. Help please. LOL
Billie, a favor please. Could you post that graphic (without the wording) of the three boys on the lake and the animated birds over to the prayer thread for my friend? I think that would be restful for his soul. Thank you if you can do that. Hugs.
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THE OLD SWIMMIN’-HOLE
by: James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
H! the old swimmin’-hole! whare the crick so still and deep
Looked like a baby-river that was laying half asleep,
And the gurgle of the worter round the drift jest below
Sounded like the laugh of something we onc’t ust to know
Before we could remember anything but the eyes
Of the angels lookin’ out as we left Paradise;
But the merry days of youth is beyond our controle,
And it's hard to part ferever with the old swimmin’-hole.
Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! In the happy days of yore,
When I ust to lean above it on the old sickamore,
Oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide
That gazed back at me so gay and glorified,
It made me love myself, as I leaped to caress
My shadder smilin’ up at me with sich tenderness.
But them days is past and gone, and old Time's tuck his toll
From the old man come back to the old swimmin’-hole.
Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! In the long, lazy days
When the humdrum of school made so many run-a-ways,
How plesant was the jurney down the old dusty lane,
Whare the tracks of our bare feet was all printed so plane
You could tell by the dent of the heel and the sole
They was lots o’ fun on hands at the old swimmin’-hole.
But the lost joys is past! Let your tears in sorrow roll
Like the rain that ust to dapple up the old swimmin’-hole.
Thare the bullrushes growed, and the cattails so tall,
And the sunshine and shadder fell over it all;
And it mottled the worter with amber and gold
Tel the glad lilies rocked in the ripples that rolled;
And the snake-feeder’s four gauzy wings fluttered by
Like the ghost of a daisy dropped out of the sky,
Or a wownded apple-blossom in the breeze's controle
As it cut acrost some orchard to’rds the old swimmin’-hole.
Oh! the old swimmin’-hole! When I last saw the place,
The scenes was all changed, like the change in my face;
The bridge of the railroad now crosses the spot
Whare the old divin’-log lays sunk and fergot.
And I stray down the banks whare the trees ust to be—
But never again will theyr shade shelter me!
And I wish in my sorrow I could strip to the soul,
And dive off in my grave like the old swimmin’-hole.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2580818/posts?page=4
This will get them over there quicker by just clicking on it. Hope it helps, Nan!
Hey, Nan.
Don’t print it too soon. I have a dentist appt so it will be this evening before I can get there.
Saying a prayer for Ozzie.
Loved this poem and graphic, yorkie! Wonderful!
Aw, thanks, JC!
I have all JWR’s works. And, if’s I’m feelin’ kinda’ low, I goes and reads some of ‘em - and it jes lifts me straight up!
I'll be back again shortly!
AWESOME graphic and poem, Yorkie!! Thanks very much!!
Jaycee did the link..I have a busy day..will try to get back later!
We also had a creek we loved to swim in...had a rope we could swing out over the water and drop into the creek.
When we HAD to, we went to a pool but we preferred the creek and the lake.
I'm so glad I grew up in "the good old days."
Now I will go back to answering pings. :)
I'm looking for his performance on YouTube last Friday night. It was an hour-long special, but there were several performers. I'll see if I can find when it's on Hallmark.
That’s such an unusual photo! Pretty, though. :)
Your photos have all been so pretty and colorful and inviting!
Thanks, Pam. I’m not usually sorry to see summer end - as I said, it’s not my favorite season - in fact, I would probably rate it my least favorite! Favorite is probably Fall, then Spring, then Winter, and last is Summer.
(Above "grpahic") I'm having a hard time with this keyboard and keep misspelling words/transposing letters, dnag it! I CAN spell, honest!
Thank YOU, yorkie - I’m glad you enjoyed the opening, and likewise, YOUR graphic and poem is WONDERFUL!
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