Lögberg-Heimskringla - 26.07.1991, Síða 2

2 • Lögberg-Heimskringla • FöstuciagMr.26. júlí 1991

DRIFT
( prompted by a remark by E.S.)
I
“Earth has not anything to show so
fair”
In East or West, than by that inland sea
Through lazy, languid ling’ring months
where we,
Timeless, of studies freed, without a
care
For village life around us - daily wear
Of serious toiling for those far from
free
Using those frost-free months so care-
fully
Drifted on with the summer-softened
air.
Were threatened that she would not
“come no more !”
And we with no fresh produce would
be caught.
III
“What are they now, past aspects of the
place ?”
The clapboard-sided Hotel Como by
The station stood with chuffing steam-
ers nigh ?
The four-twenty ? Or seven-ten in case
You missed the first; the Moonlight
Special’s face.
Up from The Beach to use the railroad
wye
In seried, patient, south-bound ranks
to lie
E’er taking midnight dancers city-ways.
Collectively, we were not welcome
there
Despite the fact that half the lots in
town
Were cottagers’, and for our daily fare
Brought extra business, held their taxes
down.
(Save those who spoke their native
language - rare!)
Resentment there - reaped where it
had been sown ?
For Epp’s molasses bread - such leav-
ened gold !
We went down to the village’ every day
For milk and cream (too often not too
cold!)
To line up for the post - not far away
To Lakeside Trading where all things
were sold
(More often walking then, than so to-
day.)
II
“O Friend! I know not which way I
must look”
To glimpse again the Gimli I recall:
A village, not a town, ( no shopping
mall);
With dusty, gravel roads, an open brook
From flowing wells, where we cold
water took
By heavy pail - a “fresh-for-dinner”
haul!
A half-mile station walk through
grasses tall,
With red-winged blackbirds, crows
where’er you look’d.
The farm wives hawked their produce
door-to-door;
Each had her route o’er which she
often fought
With others, calling early to sell more
So much that when we from another
bought
“What lovelier home could gentle fancy
choose!”
(I guess they thought that back in ‘sev-
enty-five.)
What else could lake and parkland aim
to give
Than more of fish and hay than they
could use ?
Deluded are we not by gentle muse
To view the past not by auineeds to live
Expecting, as all do, such supportive
Services free which we nowne’er refuse.
“But in my mind’s eye all is as it was”
In nineteen-forty, ere war changed it
all,
A rural village - lots of space to pause
And breathe the air of woods and mead-
ows tall,
And dream of bright-hued futures we
could cause
Our Xanadus - at least until the fall!
R.A.J. 1991
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