Voice of a Boy
poem
VOICE OF A BOY
There is the swing of springtime in the trees,
A deep reserve of darkness round the hill;
The lilting echo of a breaking voice
That laughs beneath a redwood, speaks of hope
To all the tired-out world. O changing voice,
Sweet disharmonic tune of unset strings,
Sing out your dreams, — in broken melody, —
The song of Galahad whose heart is pure,
Sing gallant life, and conquests yet to be,
And youth encouraging the feet of age
To follow brighter banners, passing by.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald, Kate Rennie Archer
p. 15
The cited information was sourced from Electronic Document (email, file) published by Davis Anthology Of Newspaper Verse For 1938 in Oklahoma in 1939 and edited by Athie Sale Davis <https://archive.org/details/davisanthologyof008622mbp> (Ref: p. 15) The author/originator was Kate Rennie Archer. This citation is considered to be direct and primary evidence used, or by dominance of the evidence.There is the swing of springtime in the trees,
A deep reserve of darkness round the hill;
The lilting echo of a breaking voice
That laughs beneath a redwood, speaks of hope
To all the tired-out world. O changing voice,
Sweet disharmonic tune of unset strings,
Sing out your dreams, — in broken melody, —
The song of Galahad whose heart is pure,
Sing gallant life, and conquests yet to be,
And youth encouraging the feet of age
To follow brighter banners, passing by.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald, Kate Rennie Archer
p. 15
- Source Notes
- Davis Anthology Of Newspaper Verse For 1938, edited and published by Athie Sale Davis, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Davis Anthology Of Newspaper Verse For 1938, edited and published by Athie Sale Davis, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- Source/Citation References (1)
- Individual: Catherine Rennie Aitken