You went away in summertime / F.O. Call

You went away in summertime 

You went away in summertime
When leaves and flowers were young,
And birds still lingered in the fields
With many songs unsung.

Tm glad it was in summertime
When skies were clear and blue,
I could not say good-bye to you
And bear the winter too.

~~

F.O. Call (1878-1956)

from Acanthus and Wild Grape, 1920

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]

Marcus Stone, The Parting by the River, 1865. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

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