ROMANCE Poem: Sonnet to Anne Shirley, by Dallas Johnson

I’d give a lot to visit Avonlea
And sit beside the Lake of Shining Waters
With you in junebell-moss tranquility
Discussing life and teaching’s finer matters.
Pray, share the fragrance of that rose of joy
Which blooms immortal in your fairy land
And grant me lore of its geography
When ‘long life’s soft-lit path I find a bend.
You gave such joy to those across your life,
You made their days a bit more blessed and bright
By loving them so wholesome; may that I
In kindred share your welcome-loving light.
But that’s the shame of loving those in books,
For never will we chat by heaven’s brook.

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