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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TRUANT, by MARY CASS CANFIELD
First Line: Fifty ladies trot to church
Last Line: God is in the apple trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance
First Line: Fifty ladies trot to church
Last Line: God is in the apple trees.
Alternate Author Name(s): C.; Mulme, Mary Cass
Subject(s): Public Worship; Church Attendance
Fifty ladies trot to church
To hear Reverend Doctor Burch --
He treads the path without a lurch.
Fifty ladies heave and sigh,
Twenty-five make shift to cry
Doctor Burch's tone is high.
The man in hard black wields a rod:
None would ever dare to nod
When he lays the law for God.
But God is an artful tease:
God is in the evening breeze,
God is in the apple trees.
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