Emily Pauline Johnson

Tekahionwake] (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913 / Chiefswood, Ontario

The Vine

The wild grape mantling the trail and tree,
Festoons in graceful veils its drapery,
Its tendrils cling, as clings the memory stirred
By some evasive haunting tune, twice heard.
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