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country summer - léonie adams lyrics

now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood
and top with silver petals traced
like a strict box its gems encased
has spilt from out that cunning lid
all in an innocent green round
those melting rubies which it hid;
with moss ripe*strawberry*encrusted
so birds get half, and minds lapse merry
to taste that deep*red, lark’s*bite berry
and blackcap bloom is yellow*dusted

the wren that thieved it in the eaves
a trailer of the rose could catch
to her poor droopy sloven thatch
and side by side with the wrеn’s brood—
o lovely time of beggar’s luck—
opеns the quaint and hairy bud;
and full and golden is the yield
of cows that never have to house
but all night nibble under boughs
or cool their sides in the moist field

into the rooms flow meadow airs
the warm farm baking smell’s blown round
inside and out, and sky and ground
are much the same; the wishing star
hesperus, kind and early born
is risen only finger*far;
all stars stand close in summer air
and tremble, and look mild as amber;
when wicks are lighted in the chamber
they are like stars which settled there
now straightening from the flowery hay
down the still light the mowers look
or turn, because their dreaming shook
and they waked half to other days
when left alone in the yellow stubble
the rusty*coated mare would graze
yet thick the lazy dreams are born
another thought can come to mind
but like the shivering of the wind
morning and evening in the corn

- leonie adams lyrics

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