Elizabethan days . THE PEEPERS UST a word about the peepers—You know them well, of course,Have heard them on the warm spring nights,In every marshy source. I like to hear their cheery noteWhen I step from the train, They seem to gladly welcome meTo the Mountain Home again. Each one his rival strives to beat, Like a minor college yell,Until the solemn country-side In blithe harmony doth swell. But later in the season, whenThe night birds haunt the lea As if ashamed, the peepers cease, Though their songs sound sweet to me. 44. THE BURNT FOREST(Near Clearfield, Pa.) ENTINELLED by sharp mountain p
Elizabethan days . THE PEEPERS UST a word about the peepers—You know them well, of course,Have heard them on the warm spring nights,In every marshy source. I like to hear their cheery noteWhen I step from the train, They seem to gladly welcome meTo the Mountain Home again. Each one his rival strives to beat, Like a minor college yell,Until the solemn country-side In blithe harmony doth swell. But later in the season, whenThe night birds haunt the lea As if ashamed, the peepers cease, Though their songs sound sweet to me. 44. THE BURNT FOREST(Near Clearfield, Pa.) ENTINELLED by sharp mountain peaksLike martyrs in a gateless pitJ Ten thousand fire swept warriors of the foreststandVoiceless awaiting a certain doom—To drop forgotten through the gloom—Be buried in the soft black the evening zephyr speaksAmong the fragile charred top boughsIn gentle tones, as though to palliateA fate which seems so needless and so hard—But every cracking branch repels the breezeAnd, pain-racked, bids it to be still—Repeating the story how that lying windFilled full of life the striped flameWhose warm caresses did the forest abashed the murmur vanishes,Over the imperishable hills A laughing sunset, bright as the killing fire ap-pearsFlooding the valley of wide expanseWith countless fresh-born after blazing forth its narrows to a frownAnd then behind the hills (imperishable) goes upon the stricken valley darkness does gently bendBringing the humbled forest one day nearer to its e
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