Down By the Salley Gardens

By WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Down by the salley gardens

my love and I did meet;

She passed the salley gardens

The Garden of Eden 1900 by Hugh Goldwyn Riviere

with little snow-white feet.

She bid me take love easy,

as the leaves grow on the tree;

But I, being young and foolish,

with her would not agree.

In a field by the river

my love and I did stand,

And on my leaning shoulder

she laid her snow-white hand.

She bid me take life easy,

as the grass grows on the weirs;

But I was young and foolish,

and now am full of tears.

The Salley Gardens

by Wayne L Murphy

That is one way to see it

but this a way, might be

As she left the garden, I

gazed standing 'neath a tree

A young woman, hair of gold

a smile that lit the sky

upon approach I wondered

I've never seen thee, why?

She gave me a wink, then she

flashed at me her sweet smile,

Sir, if you've a moment,

please come sit for a while

And right there where I'd lost love,

in the salley garden

I found it once again, my

heart would cease to harden

Poem-a-Day challenge; Day 24: Write a parody or satire based on a famous poem. Take a favorite poem of the past, and re-write it on humorous, mocking, or sharp-witted lines. Use your poem to make fun of the original (in the vein of a parody), or turn the form and manner of the original into a vehicle for making points about something else (more of a satire – though the dividing lines get rather confused and thin at times).

I chose to add to Yeats' poem, and give it a brighter ending.  They are meant to complement each other, and be read together.