I walk the unfrequented road

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Title: I walk the unfrequented road
Text: Frederick Lucian Hosmer, 1913
Tune: CONSOLATION (MORNING SONG)
Music: John Wyeth, 1813
Key: F minor
Meter: CM
Date Added: 2021/01/31

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I walk the unfrequented road
with open eye and ear;
I watch afield the farmer load
the bounty of the year.

I filch the fruit of no one's toil—
no trespasser am I—
and yet I reap from every soil
and from the boundless sky

I gather where I did not sow,
and bind the mystic sheaf,
the amber air, the river's flow,
the rustle of the leaf.

A beauty springtime never knew
haunts all the quiet ways,
and sweeter shines the landscape through
its veil of autumn haze.

I face the hills, the streams, the wood,
and feel with all akin;
my heart expands; their fortitude
and peace and joy flow in.

Alternate words

O holy city, seen of John The King shall come when morning dawns