Autumn Romance Poem by Joyce Hemsley

Hand in hand they wandered
north-eastward across the vales
during the beautiful autumn time
in England's Yorkshire Dales.

The sun shone over the valleys
nature was never so fair,
on the day he wooed the one he loved,
the girl with the flaxen hair.

The depth of his soul was captured
by a softness, pure as the snow.
His young life he would surrender
because he adored her so.

Voices echoed from a village church
and as he knelt before his love...
he could hear Mendelssohn's melody:
'O For the Wings of a Dove'.

Who else within the whole wide world
could feel such ecstasy rare?
At a time when fairy-tales came true,
they both vowed their lives to share.