AFTERMATH
by: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807-1882)
- HEN the summer fields are mown,
- When the birds are fledged and flown,
- And the dry leaves strew the path;
- With the falling of the snow,
- With the cawing of the crow,
- Once again the fields we mow
- And gather in the aftermath.
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- Not the sweet, new grass with flowers
- Is this harvesting of ours;
- Not the upland clover bloom;
- But the rowen mixed with weeds,
- Tangled tufts from marsh and meads,
- Where the poppy drops its seeds
- In the silence and the gloom.
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