WHO GOES AMID THE GREEN WOOD

by: James Joyce (1882-1941)

      HO goes amid the green wood
      With springtide all adorning her?
      Who goes amid the merry green wood
      To make it merrier?
       
      Who passes in the sunlight
      By ways that know the light footfall?
      Who passes in the sweet sunlight
      With mien so virginal?
       
      The ways of all the woodland
      Gleam with a soft and golden fire--
      For whom does all the sunny woodland
      Carry so brave attire?
       
      O, it is for my true love
      The woods their rich apparel wear--
      O, it is for my own true love,
      That is so young and fair.

'Who goes amid the green wood' is reprinted from Chamber Music. James Joyce. London: Elkin Mathews, 1907.

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