Goldenrod, lobelia, ageratum, primrose and cardinal-flower lead down the bright battalions of their blossoms to the brookside, swarming its banks, rank upon rank, their glorious array mirrored and reflected in the smooth-flowing waters. Their plumed and bannered hosts startle and astonish the fields with a splendid, a mighty invasion—the fields that have not felt a plough for years. Now a chattering jay flashes above them, garrulous, jubilant, intoxicated with the sea of colors, itself a winged
Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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- 1906
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"Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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blossom, a great lobelia, blue, freaked with white, endowed with a voice, and hurrahing its happiness to the sky and the trees.