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O The South Wind and the Sun	A
How each loved the other one	A
Full of fancy full folly	B
Full of jollity and fun	A
How they romped and ran about	C
Like two boys when school is out	C
With glowing face and lisping lip	D
Low laugh and lifted shout	C
	-
And the South Wind he was dressed	E
With a ribbon round his breast	E
That floated flapped and fluttered	F
In a riotous unrest	E
And a drapery of mist	G
From the shoulder and the wrist	G
Flowing backward with the motion	A
Of the waving hand he kissed	G
	-
And the Sun had on a crown	H
Wrought of gilded thistle down	H
And a scarf of velvet vapor	I
And a ravelled rainbow gown	H
And his tinsel tangled hair	J
Tossed and lost upon the air	J
Was glossier and flossier	J
Than any anywhere	J
	-
And the South Wind's eyes were two	K
Little dancing drops of dew	K
As he puffed his cheeks and pursed his lips	L
And blew and blew and blew	K
And the Sun's like diamond stone	M
Brighter yet than ever known	M
As he knit his brows and held his breath	N
And shone and shone and shone	M
	-
And this pair of merry fays	L
Wandered through the summer days	L
Arm in arm they went together	J
Over heights of morning haze	L
Over slanting slopes of lawn	O
They went on and on and on	P
Where the daisies looked like star tracks	L
Trailing up and down the dawn	O
	-
And where'er they found the top	Q
Of a wheat stalk droop and lop	Q
They chucked it underneath the chin	R
And praised the lavish crop	Q
Till it lifted with the pride	S
Of the heads it grew beside	S
And then the South Wind and the Sun	A
Went onward satisfied	S
	-
Over meadow lands they tripped	T
Where the dandelions dipped	T
In crimson foam of clover bloom	U
And dripped and dripped and dripped	T
And they clinched the bumble stings	L
Gauming honey on their wings	L
And bundling them in lily bells	L
With maudlin murmurings	L
	-
And the humming bird that hung	V
Like a jewel up among	V
The tilted honeysuckle horns	L
They mesmerized and swung	V
In the palpitating air	J
Drowsed with odors strange and rare	J
And with whispered laughter slipped away	W
And left him hanging there	J
	-
And they braided blades of grass	L
Where the truant had to pass	L
And they wriggled through the rushes	L
And the reeds of the morass	L
Where they danced in rapture sweet	X
O'er the leaves that laid a street	X
Of undulant mosaic for	J
The touches of their feet	X
	-
By the brook with mossy brink	Y
Where the cattle came to drink	Y
They trilled and piped and whistled	Z
With the thrush and bobolink	Y
Till the kine in listless pause	L
Switched their tails in mute applause	L
With lifted heads and dreamy eyes	L
And bubble dripping jaws	L
	-
And where the melons grew	K
Streaked with yellow green and blue	K
These jolly sprites went wandering	Y
Through spangled paths of dew	K
And the melons here and there	J
They made love to everywhere	J
Turning their pink souls to crimson	A
With caresses fond and fair	J
	-
Over orchard walls they went	A2
Where the fruited boughs were bent	A2
Till they brushed the sward beneath them	B2
Where the shine and shadow blent	A2
And the great green pear they shook	Y
Till the sallow hue forsook	Y
Its features and the gleam of gold	A2
Laughed out in every look	Y
	-
And they stroked the downy cheek	Y
Of the peach and smoothed it sleek	Y
And flushed it into splendor	J
And with many an elfish freak	Y
Gave the russet's rust a wipe	C2
Prankt the rambo with a stripe	C2
And the wine sap blushed its reddest	A2
As they spanked the pippins ripe	C2
	-
Through the woven ambuscade	A2
That the twining vines had made	A2
They found the grapes in clusters	L
Drinking up the shine and shade	A2
Plumpt like tiny skins of wine	D2
With a vintage so divine	D2
That the tongue of fancy tingled	A2
With the tang of muscadine	D2
	-
And the golden banded bees	L
Droning o'er the flowery leas	L
They bridled reigned and rode away	W
Across the fragrant breeze	L
Till in hollow oak and elm	E2
They had groomed and stabled them	B2
In waxen stalls oozed with dews	L
Of rose and lily stem	B2
	-
Where the dusty highway leads	L
High above the wayside weeds	L
They sowed the air with butterflies	L
Like blooming flower seeds	L
Till the dull grasshopper sprung	Y
Half a man's height up and hung	Y
Tranced in the heat with whirring wings	L
And sung and sung and sung	Y
	-
And they loitered hand in hand	A2
Where the snipe along the sand	A2
Of the river ran to meet them	B2
As the ripple meets the land	A2
Till the dragon fly in light	A2
Gauzy armor burnished bright	A2
Came tilting down the waters	L
In a wild bewildered flight	A2
	-
And they heard the killdee's call	F2
And afar the waterfall	F2
But the rustle of a falling leaf	G2
They heard above it all	F2
And the trailing willow crept	A2
Deeper in the tide that swept	A2
The leafy shallop to the shore	J
And wept and wept and wept	A2
	-
And the fairy vessel veered	A2
From its moorings tacked and steered	A2
For the centre of the current	A2
Sailed away and disappeared	A2
And the burthen that it bore	J
From the long enchanted shore	J
'Alas The South Wind and the Sun '	-
I murmur evermore	J
	-
For the South Wind and the Sun	D2
Each so loves the other one	D2
For all his jolly folly	B
And frivolity and fun	D2
That our love for them they weigh	W
As their fickle fancies may	W
And when at last we love them most	A2
They laugh and sail away	W

James Whitcomb Riley

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