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THE VOICE OF THE GRASS



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

By the dusty roadside;

On the sunny hillside;

Close by the noisy brook;

In every shady nook;

I come creeping; creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; smiling everywhere;

All round the open door;

Where here sit the aged poor;

Here where the children play;

In the bright and merry May;

I come creeping; creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

In the noisy city street

My pleasant face you'll meet;

Cheering the sick at heart

Toiling his busy part; …

Silently creeping; creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

You cannot see me coming;

Nor hear my low sweet humming;

For in the starry night;

And the glad morning light;

I come quietly creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

More welcome than the flowers

In summer's pleasant hours;

The gentle cow is glad;

And the merry bird not sad; 

To see me creeping; creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

When you're numbered with the dead

In your still and narrow bed;

In the happy spring I'll come

And deck your silent home; …

Creeping; silently creeping everywhere。



Here I come creeping; creeping everywhere;

My humble song of praise

Most joyfully I raise

To Him at whose command

I beautify the land;

Creeping; silently creeping everywhere。



Sarah Roberts Boyle '1812…1869'





A SONG THE GRASS SINGS



The violet is much too shy;

The rose too little so;

I think I'll ask the buttercup

If I may be her beau。



When winds go by; I'll nod to her

And she will nod to me;

And I will kiss her on the cheek

As gently as may be。



And when the mower cuts us down;

Together we will pass;

I smiling at the buttercup;

She smiling at the grass。



Charles G。 Blanden '1857…





THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE



Fair flower; that dost so comely grow;

Hid in this silent; dull retreat;

Untouched thy honied blossoms blow;

Unseen thy little branches greet:

No roving foot shall crush thee here;

No busy hand provoke a tear。



By Nature's self in white arrayed;

She bade thee shun the vulgar eye;

And planted here the guardian shade;

And sent soft waters murmuring by;

Thus quietly thy summer goes;

Thy days declining to repose。



Smit with those charms; that must decay;

I grieve to see your future doom;

They died … nor were those flowers more gay;

The flowers that did in Eden bloom;

Unpitying frosts and Autumn's power

Shall leave no vestige of this flower。



From morning suns and evening dews

At first thy little being came;

If nothing once; you nothing lose;

For when you die you are the same;

The space between is but an hour;

The frail duration of a flower。



Philip Freneau '1752…1832'





THE IVY GREEN



Oh; a dainty plant is the Ivy green; 

That creepeth o'er ruins old!

Of right choice food are his meals I ween;

In his cell so lone and cold。

The wall must be crumbled; the stone decayed;

To pleasure his dainty whim;

And the mouldering dust that years have made

Is a merry meal for him。

Creeping where no life is seen;

A rare old plant is the Ivy green。



Fast he stealeth on; though he wears no wings;

And a staunch old heart has he。

How closely he twineth; how tight he clings

To his friend the huge Oak Tree!

And slily he traileth along the ground;

And his leaves he gently waves;

As he joyously hugs and crawleth round

The rich mould of dead men's graves。

Creeping where grim death has been;

A rare old plant is the Ivy green。



Whole ages have fled and their works decayed;

And nations have scattered been;

But the stout old Ivy shall never fade;

From its hale and hearty green。

The brave old plant; in its lonely days;

Shall fatten upon the past:

For the stateliest building man can raise

Is the Ivy's food at last。

Creeping on; where time has been;

A rare old plant is the Ivy green。



Charles Dickens '1812…1870'





YELLOW JESSAMINE



In tangled wreaths; in clustered gleaming stars;

In floating; curling sprays;

The golden flower comes shining through the woods

These February days;

Forth go all hearts; all hands; from out the town;

To bring her gayly in;

This wild; sweet Princess of far Florida …

The yellow jessamine。



The live…oaks smile to see her lovely face

Peep from the thickets; shy;

She hides behind the leaves her golden buds

Till; bolder grown; on high

She curls a tendril; throws a spray; then flings

Herself aloft in glee;

And; bursting into thousand blossoms; swings

In wreaths from tree to tree。



The dwarf…palmetto on his knees adores

This Princess of the air;

The lone pine…barren broods afar and sighs;

〃Ah! come; lest I despair;〃

The myrtle…thickets and ill…tempered thorns

Quiver and thrill within;

As through their leaves they feel the dainty touch

Of yellow jessamine。



The garden…roses wonder as they see

The wreaths of golden bloom;

Brought in from the far woods with eager haste

To deck the poorest room;

The rich man's house; alike; the loaded hands

Give sprays to all they meet;

Till; gay with flowers; the people come and go;

And all the air is sweet。



The Southern land; well weary of its green

Which may not fall nor fade;

Bestirs itself to greet the lovely flower

With leaves of fresher shade;

The pine has tassels; and the orange…trees

Their fragrant work begin:

The spring has come … has come to Florida;

With yellow jessamine。



Constance Fenimore Woolson '1840…1894'





KNAP WEED



By copse and hedgerow; waste and wall;

He thrusts his cushions red;

O'er burdock rank; o'er thistles tall;

He rears his hardy head:

Within; without; the strong leaves press;

He screens the mossy stone;

Lord of a narrow wilderness;

Self…centred and alone。



He numbers no observant friends;

He soothes no childish woes;

Yet nature nurtures him; and tends

As duly as the rose;

He drinks the blessed dew of heaven;

The wind is in his ears;

To guard his growth the planets seven

Swing in their airy spheres。



The spirits of the fields and woods 

Throb in his sturdy veins:

He drinks the secret; stealing floods;

And swills the volleying rains:

And when the bird's note showers and breaks

The wood's green heart within;

He stirs his plumy brow and wakes

To draw the sunlight in。



Mute sheep that pull the grasses soft

Crop close and pass him by;

Until he stands alone; aloft;

In surly majesty。

No fly so keen; no bee so bold;

To pierce that knotted zone;

He frowns as though he guarded gold;

And yet he garners none。



And so when autumn winds blow late;

And whirl the chilly wave;

He bows before the common fate;

And drops beside his grave。

None ever owed him thanks or said 

〃A gift of gracious heaven。〃

Down in the mire he droops his head;

Forgotten; not forgiven。



Smile on; brave weed! let none inquire

What made or bade thee rise:

Toss thy tough fingers high and higher

To flout the drenching skies。

Let others toil for others' good;

And miss or mar their own;

Thou hast brave health and fortitude

To live and die alone!



Arthur Christopher Benson '1862…1925'





MOLY



The root is hard to loose

From hold of earth by mortals; but God's power

Can all things do。  'Tis black; but bears a flower

As white as milk。

… Chapman's Homer



Traveler; pluck a stem of moly;

If thou touch at Circe's isle; …

Hermes' moly; growing solely

To undo enchanter's wile!

When she proffers thee her chalice; …

Wine and spices mixed with malice; …

When she smites thee with her staff;

To transform thee; do thou laugh!

Safe thou art if thou but bear

The least leaf of moly rare。

Close it grows beside her portal;

Springing from a stock immortal; …

Yes! and often has the Witch

Sought to tear it from its niche;

But to thwart her cruel will

The wise God renews it still。

Though it grows in soil perverse;

Heaven hath been its jealous nurse;

And a flower of snowy mark

Springs from root and sheathing dark;

Kingly safeguard; only herb

That can brutish passion curb!

Some do think its name should be

Shield…Heart; White Integrity。

Traveler; pluck a stem of moly;

If thou touch at Circe's isle; …

Hermes' moly; growing solely

To undo enchanter's wile!



Edith M。 Thomas '1854…1925'





THE MORNING…GLORY



Was it worth while to paint so fair

Thy every leaf … to vein with faultless art

Each petal; taking the boon light and air

Of summer so to heart?



To bring thy beauty unto perfect flower;

Then; like a passing fragrance or a smile;

Vanish away; beyond recovery's power …

Was it; frail bloom; worth while?



Thy silence answers: 〃Life was mine!

And I; who pass without regret or grief;

Have cared the more to make my moment fine;

Because it was so brief。



〃In its first radiance I have seen

The sun! … why tarry then till comes the night?

I go my way; content that I have been

Part of the morning light!〃



Florence Earle Coates '1850…1927'





THE MOUNTAIN HEART'S…EASE



By scattered rocks and turbid waters shifting;

By furrowed glade and dell;

To feverish men thy calm; sweet face uplifting;

Thou stayest them to tell



The delicate thought that cannot find expression;

For ruder speech too fair;

That; like thy petals; trembles in possession;

And scatters on the air。



The miner pauses in his rugged labor;

And; leaning on his spade;

Laughingly calls unto his comrade…neighbor

To see thy charms displayed。



But in his eyes a mist unwonted rises;

And for a moment clear

Some sweet home face his foolish thought surprises

And passes in a tear; …



Some boyish vision of his Eastern village;

Of uneventful toil;

Where golden harv
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