Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]
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Poems / by Madison Cawein ; with a foreward by William Dean Howells [electronic text]
Author
Cawein, Madison, Julius, 1865-1914
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New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company
1911
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COMRADERY
WITH eyes hand-arched he looks intoThe morning's face; then turns awayWith truant feet, all wet with dew,Out for a holiday.
The hill brook sings; incessant stars,Foam-fashioned, on its restless breast;And where he wades its water-barsIts song is happiest.
A comrade of the chinquapin,He looks into its knotty eyesAnd sees its heart; and, deep within,Its soul that makes him wise.
The wood-thrush knows and follows him,Who whistles up the birds and bees;And round him all the perfumes swimOf woodland loam and trees.
Where'er he pass the silvery springs'Foam-people sing the flowers awake;And sappy lips of bark-clad thingsLaugh ripe each berried brake.
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His touch is a companionship;His word an old authority:He comes, a lyric on his lip,The woodboy — Poesy.
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