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"New poems / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAH7936.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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GARDEN GOSSIP
THIN, chisel-fine a cricket chippedThe crystal silence into sound;And where the branches dreamed and drippedA grasshopper its dagger strippedAnd on the humming darkness ground.
A bat, against the gibbous moon,Danced, imp-like, with its lone delight;The glow-worm scrawled a golden runeUpon the dark; and, emerald-strewn,The firefly hung with lamps the night.
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The flowers said their beads in prayer,Dew-syllables of sighed perfume;Or talked of two, soft-standing there,One like a gladiole, straight and fair,And one like some rich poppy-bloom.
The mignonette and feverfewLaid their pale brows together: —" See!"One whispered. "Did their step thrill throughYour roots? " —" Like rain." —" I touched the twoAnd a new bud was born in me."
One rose said to another: —" WhoseIs this dim music? song, that partsMy crimson petals like the dews?""My blossom trembles with sweet news —It is the love of two young hearts."
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