Placid and pure and clean the wild-phlox blooms Make glad the hillsides and deep-wooded banks
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 14, 2024.
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Of wandering creeks. Beneath the old, gray beech The Mayapples, in myriad colonies, Advance-guards of the wildflowers' following hosts, Lift up their green-and-umber tents of leaves, Each unrolled tent tipped with its furled-up flag, Its pea-like bud, a knob of delicate green, Wherein the milk-white,—blazoned deep with gold,—Of its broad bloom, its banner's packed away. While at the wood's edge, at the turn o' the lane, A clear, a chilly crimson in its keys, Its million blooms, the maple fairly glows, Making a crystal blur of rosy gloom; Wherein the bluebird, like a sapphire closed In an enormous ruby, sits and sings; Upon his back and on his wayward wings the lapis-lazuli o' the April sky.
APRIL 5th, 1905.