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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 13, 2024.
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RAINLESS
THE locust builds its are of soundAnd tops it with a spire;The roadside leaves pant to the groundWith dust from hoof and tire.
The insects, day and night, make din,And with the heat grow shriller;And everywhere great spiders spin,And crawls the caterpillar.
The wells are dry; the creeks are pools;Weeds cram their beds with bristles;And when a wind breathes, naught it cools,The air grows white with thistles.
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For months the drouth has burned and bakedThe wood and field and garden;The flower-plots are dead; and, raked,Or mown, the meadows harden.
The Summer, sunk in godlessness,From quarter unto quarter,Now drags, now lifts a dusty dress,That shows a sloven garter.
The child of Spring, it now appears,Has turned a drab, a harlot,Death's doxy; Death's, who near her leersIn rags of gold and scarlet
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