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Often four times in a day,
Narrow, rather dark, with grass
Growing, a neglected way;
Two long walls, a tumbled shed,
Bushes shadowing each wall -
When I've wondered where it led
People say Nowhere at all.
But if that is true, oh why
Should this turning be at all?
Some time, in the daylight, I
Will creep up along the wall;
For it somehow makes you think,
It has such a secret air,
It might lead you to the brink
Of - oh well, of anywhere!
Some time I will go. And see,
Here's the turning just in sight,
Full of shadows beckoning me!
Some time, yes. But not to-night.
This poem is in the public domain.
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Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965) was an award-winning English author of primarily children's literature. Born into a literary family (her parents and siblings were all writers, except for one brother who was a composer), "Nellie," as she was called, started writing when she was a child. She was friends with many leading authors of her time, including D.H. Lawrence and Robert Frost. Though Eleanor produced a tremendous amount of work--more than eighty books of children's stories and poems, adult novels, and other work, plus numerous school plays--her best known creations are the poem, "Morning Has Broken," made popular in the song by Cat Stevens, and the poem, "People Look East," which someone paired up with an old French melody to create a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1928.
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