Symbols

<SPAN name="startofbook"></SPAN> <h2><SPAN name="SYMBOLS" id="SYMBOLS"></SPAN>SYMBOLS</h2> <p class="cb"><span class="smcap">By</span><br/> JOHN DRINKWATER<br/></p> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="smcap">I saw</span> history in a poet’s song,<br/></span> <span class="i0">In a river-reach and a gallows-hill,<br/></span> <span class="i0">In a bridal bed, and a secret wrong,<br/></span> <span class="i0">In a crown of thorns: in a daffodil.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">I imagined measureless time in a day,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And starry space in a waggon-road,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And the treasure of all good harvests lay<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the single seed that the sower sowed.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">My garden-wind had driven and havened again<br/></span> <span class="i0">All ships that ever had gone to sea,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And I saw the glory of all dead men<br/></span> <span class="i0">In the shadow that went by the side of me.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />