Edgar Bowers Life Poems
- 1. Autumn Shade
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The autumn shade is thin. Grey leaves lie faint
... - 2. John
Before he wrote a poem, he learned the measure
That living in the future gives a farm--
Propinquity of mules and cows, the charmed
Insouciance of hens, the fellowship,
... - 3. For Louis Pasteur
How shall a generation know its story
If it will know no other? When, among
The scoffers at the Institute, Pasteur
Heard one deny the cause of child-birth fever,
... - 4. Clear-seeing
Bavaria, 1946
The clairvoyante, a major generalâ??s wife,
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