: A Life's Story In Poetry. Other Poems by Woodcock Dennison - American poetry 20th century

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A Life's Story, In Poetry.

Other Poems

Written at The Age of Ninety One.

Chas. O. Laymon, Printer, Port Allegany, Penna. 1908

A LIFE'S STORY From One to Ninety-One

Borne down by weight of ninety years My limbs have weaker grown; 'Mid joy and grief, 'mid smiles and tears How quick the years have flown. I look 'way back, a distant view, To years of long ago. I asked my brother if he knew What caused the winds to blow.

My brother answered me with ease, As if prepared to know; It is those slim and lofty trees That make the wind to blow. I looked and saw the lofty pines Waving to and fro; They were full proof within my mind They were what made it blow.

When I felt the chilling breeze, The snowflakes whizzing round; I felt a grudge against those trees. And wished they were cut down. But a wee bit of a child Knew naught of nature's laws; My mind was often running wild And took effect for cause.

Saw water gushing from a mill, Heard a fluttering sound; As we went riding up the hill, The saw went up and down. It remained a mystery still, The thing I could not know; How water running through a mill Could make the saw to go.

A bush had lopped into a stream, Was bobbing up and down; I thought that I had solved the theme The truth there I had found. I went and fixed a limber stick, A saw attached also; It run on water from the creek, The saw it would not go.

I went there to recruit my skill, Saw pitman, crank and wheel; Then I went home and built a mill, With saw of tempered steel. When I built that little mill I something more than played; It helped to point mechanic skill. It helped to learn a trade.

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