Show Jesse Stuart Kentucky Poet Writes of Magic and Romantic World of Childhood I Sun in the sky The oak stained autumn sky Wind in thc the sassafras s I sprouts The great skies skies that sweep over the Hollow W V and the stream sings a song It was vas was when you were here here- here that tI the h hollow looked like a fairyland to you ou It If was the of your childhood od You can remember the martins around the boxes in early spring fighting the tile English sparrows You u remember Uncle Mel used to throw clods out of the thc garden at the sparrows sparrows sparrows spar spar- I rows and try to run them out for forthe forthe forthe I the martins You remember the bee I stands under the plum trees and the bees work working g on the white plum blossoms I You remember the thc flags by the Branch W-Branch in white purple and yellow yellow yellow yel yel- low blossoms and the bees working on them You remember the smell of the hot young corn com in the little bottoms bottoms and and you remember the watermelon patch and the creek where you left your clothes when you went in swimming by the sycamore more You owned the hills then then all all of the Hollow but Hollow W-Hollow but you didn't have a deed for those wooded acres with its millions of f wild flowers and its I foxes faxes rabbits sq squirrels turtles and t It was a heaven here her to y you u. u The rhe un s-un sun came over the limbered timbered timbered tim tim- hills in the morning ran morning ran down a a blue pathless pathless' ess' ess skY and dragged a pat patch h of Ted in the hc thelong longs long s summer evenings over the green chestnut trees on the ridge You remember it was heaven to you a paradise of of earth where there was poetry on the ground the nodding nodding nodding nod nod- ding flowers the green hair of April It was vas a heaven of childhood with th the log shack and t tumbling bling barns and cornfields But time came by and and stole stoIc that far faraway far fairyland from you you Jesse Stuart Ke Kentucky tucky Poet of W-Hollow W in the Southern I Literary Messenger I |