Nature

I feel the season's dreamy call

by Theodore Harding Rand 1835–1900

From Song-Waves (1900)

Nature

I feel the season's dreamy call
In hawkbit, asters, 'pyeweed tall,--
Glory of August ere September
Trumpet the note of the hasting fall.

A flash in crystal waters cold--
O dream in silver, red, and gold--
The speckled trout above the gravel
Lies by the rock where the stream is rolled!

Grasshoppers chirp and crickets chir,
The rich-tagged alders nod and pur,
The kine bells drowse the distant pasture,--
All nature waits for the coming stir.

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From the sequence Song-Waves (1900)

MLA

Rand, Theodore Harding. “I feel the season's dreamy call.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rand_th/114/.

Chicago

Rand, Theodore Harding. “I feel the season's dreamy call.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rand_th/114/.

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