There's gold, and it's haunting and haunting; It's luring me on as of old; Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingso much as just finding the gold. It's the forests where silence has lease; It's the beauty that thrills me with wonder, It's the stillness that fills me with peace.
Robert W. ServiceAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Nationality: scottish
- Born: January 16, 1874
- Died: September 11, 1958
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