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Frederick
George Scott
COLLECTED
POEMS
At
the Cross Roads
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Here on life’s Cross Roads, friend, our ways
now sever,
And each must journey ’neath
an altered sky,
Yet in the years to come our hearts will never
Forget the glad hours of
the days gone by.
Oft have we sat before the bright logs blazing
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On
the wide hearth, and closed the winter’s day;
Oft in the meadows, where the cows were grazing,
Have watched the summer
sunsets die away.
Oft have we sped, girt with the engine’s
thunder,
Down the bright track
into the golden dawn;
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Oft
through dark forests when the moon, in wonder,
Peered ’neath the
trees at the long smoke outdrawn.
And now when autumn fields are filled with beauty,
And while the breath of
harvest is so sweet,
We who have heard afar the voice of duty,
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| Shake
hands and part where these two roadways meet.
Dear brother heart, we leave farewells unspoken,
We shall not change nor
can our love forget,
For on life’s sky, by sun and shadow broken,
True friendship is a star
that does not set. [Page 151]
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