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To day the woods are trembling through and through	A
With shimmering forms that flash before my view	A
Then melt in green as dawn stars melt in blue	A
The leaves that wave against my cheek caress	B
Like women's hands the embracing boughs express	B
A subtlety of mighty tenderness	C
The copse depths into little noises start	D
That sound anon like beatings of a heart	D
Anon like talk 'twixt lips not far apart	D
The beech dreams balm as a dreamer hums a song	E
Through that vague wafture expirations strong	E
Throb from young hickories breathing deep and long	E
With stress and urgence bold of prisoned spring	F
And ecstasy of burgeoning	F
Now since the dew plashed road of morn is dry	G
Forth venture odors of more quality	H
And heavenlier giving Like Jove's locks awry	G
Long muscadines	C
Rich wreathe the spacious foreheads of great pines	C
And breathe ambrosial passion from their vines	C
I pray with mosses ferns and flowers shy	G
That hide like gentle nuns from human eye	G
To lift adoring perfumes to the sky	G
I hear faint bridal sighs of brown and green	I
Dying to silent hints of kisses keen	I
As far lights fringe into a pleasant sheen	I
I start at fragmentary whispers blown	J
From undertalks of leafy souls unknown	J
Vague purports sweet of inarticulate tone	J
Dreaming of gods men nuns and brides between	I
Old companies of oaks that inward lean	I
To join their radiant amplitudes of green	I
I slowly move with ranging looks that pass	C
Up from the matted miracles of grass	C
Into yon veined complex of space	C
Where sky and leafage interlace	C
So close the heaven of blue is seen	I
Inwoven with a heaven of green	I
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I wander to the zigzag cornered fence	C
Where sassafras intrenched in brambles dense	C
Contests with stolid vehemence	C
The march of culture setting limb and thorn	K
As pikes against the army of the corn	K
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There while I pause my fieldward faring eyes	C
Take harvests where the stately corn ranks rise	C
Of inward dignities	C
And large benignities and insights wise	C
Graces and modest majesties	C
Thus without theft I reap another's field	L
Thus without tilth I house a wondrous yield	L
And heap my heart with quintuple crops concealed	L
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Look out of line one tall corn captain stands	C
Advanced beyond the foremost of his bands	C
And waves his blades upon the very edge	M
And hottest thicket of the battling hedge	M
Thou lustrous stalk that ne'er mayst walk nor talk	N
Still shalt thou type the poet soul sublime	O
That leads the vanward of his timid time	O
And sings up cowards with commanding rhyme	O
Soul calm like thee yet fain like thee to grow	P
By double increment above below	P
Soul homely as thou art yet rich in grace like thee	H
Teaching the yeomen selfless chivalry	H
That moves in gentle curves of courtesy	H
Soul filled like thy long veins with sweetness tense	C
By every godlike sense	C
Transmuted from the four wild elements	C
Drawn to high plans	C
Thou lift'st more stature than a mortal man's	C
Yet ever piercest downward in the mould	Q
And keepest hold	Q
Upon the reverend and steadfast earth	R
That gave thee birth	R
Yea standest smiling in thy future grave	S
Serene and brave	S
With unremitting breath	T
Inhaling life from death	T
Thine epitaph writ fair in fruitage eloquent	U
Thyself thy monument	U
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As poets should	V
Thou hast built up thy hardihood	V
With universal food	V
Drawn in select proportion fair	W
From honest mould and vagabond air	W
From darkness of the dreadful night	V
And joyful light	V
From antique ashes whose departed flame	X
In thee has finer life and longer fame	X
From wounds and balms	C
From storms and calms	C
From potsherds and dry bones	C
And ruin stones	C
Into thy vigorous substance thou hast wrought	V
Whate'er the hand of Circumstance hath brought	V
Yea into cool solacing green hast spun	Y
White radiance hot from out the sun	Y
So thou dost mutually leaven	Y
Strength of earth with grace of heaven	Y
So thou dost marry new and old	V
Into a one of higher mould	V
So thou dost reconcile the hot and cold	V
The dark and bright	V
And many a heart perplexing opposite	V
And so	P
Akin by blood to high and low	P
Fitly thou playest out thy poet's part	V
Richly expending thy much bruised heart	V
In equal care to nourish lord in hall	Z
Or beast in stall	Z
Thou took'st from all that thou mightst give to all	Z
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O steadfast dweller on the selfsame spot	V
Where thou wast born that still repinest not	V
Type of the home fond heart the happy lot	V
Deeply thy mild content rebukes the land	V
Whose flimsy homes built on the shifting sand	V
Of trade for ever rise and fall	Z
With alternation whimsical	A2
Enduring scarce a day	V
Then swept away	V
By swift engulfments of incalculable tides	C
Whereon capricious Commerce rides	C
Look thou substantial spirit of content	V
Across this little vale thy continent	V
To where beyond the mouldering mill	B2
Yon old deserted Georgian hill	B2
Bares to the sun his piteous aged crest	V
And seamy breast	V
By restless hearted children left to lie	G
Untended there beneath the heedless sky	G
As barbarous folk expose their old to die	G
Upon that generous rounding side	V
With gullies scarified	V
Where keen Neglect his lash hath plied	V
Dwelt one I knew of old who played at toil	C2
And gave to coquette Cotton soul and soil	C2
Scorning the slow reward of patient grain	D2
He sowed his heart with hopes of swifter gain	D2
Then sat him down and waited for the rain	D2
He sailed in borrowed ships of usury	H
A foolish Jason on a treacherous sea	H
Seeking the Fleece and finding misery	H
Lulled by smooth rippling loans in idle trance	C
He lay content that unthrift Circumstance	C
Should plough for him the stony field of Chance	C
Yea gathering crops whose worth no man might tell	E2
He staked his life on games of Buy and Sell	E2
And turned each field into a gambler's hell	E2
Aye as each year began	F2
My farmer to the neighboring city ran	F2
Passed with a mournful anxious face	C
Into the banker's inner place	C
Parleyed excused pleaded for longer grace	C
Railed at the drought the worm the rust the grass	C
Protested ne'er again 'twould come to pass	C
With many an 'oh' and 'if' and 'but alas'	C
Parried or swallowed searching questions rude	V
And kissed the dust to soften Dives's mood	V
At last small loans by pledges great renewed	V
He issues smiling from the fatal door	G2
And buys with lavish hand his yearly store	G2
Till his small borrowings will yield no more	G2
Aye as each year declined	V
With bitter heart and ever brooding mind	V
He mourned his fate unkind	V
In dust in rain with might and main	D2
He nursed his cotton cursed his grain	D2
Fretted for news that made him fret again	H2
Snatched at each telegram of Future Sale	I2
And thrilled with Bulls' or Bears' alternate wail	I2
In hope or fear alike for ever pale	I2
And thus from year to year through hope and fear	J2
With many a curse and many a secret tear	W
Striving in vain his cloud of debt to clear	J2
At last	V
He woke to find his foolish dreaming past	V
And all his best of life the easy prey	V
Of squandering scamps and quacks that lined his way	V
With vile array	V
From rascal statesman down to petty knave	S
Himself at best for all his bragging brave	S
A gamester's catspaw and a banker's slave	S
Then worn and gray and sick with deep unrest	V
He fled away into the oblivious West	V
Unmourned unblest	V
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Old hill old hill thou gashed and hairy Lear	J2
Whom the divine Cordelia of the year	J2
E'en pitying Spring will vainly strive to cheer	J2
King that no subject man nor beast may own	J
Discrowned undaughtered and alone	J
Yet shall the great God turn thy fate	V
And bring thee back into thy monarch state	V
And majesty immaculate	V
Lo through hot waverings of the August morn	K
Thou givest from thy vasty sides forlorn	K
Visions of golden treasuries of corn	K
Ripe largesse lingering for some bolder heart	V
That manfully shall take thy part	V
And tend thee	H
And defend thee	H
With antique sinew and with modern art	V
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Sunnyside Georgia August	V