Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TRAPS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES


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First Line: A trap's a very useful thing:
Last Line: It is a trap to catch us two.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie
Subject(s): Spring


A trap's a very useful thing:
Nature in our path sets Spring.
It is a trap to catch us two,
It is planned for me and you.
Do not think my cheeks are warm,
Do not wonder if my arm
Would make a pillow sweet for rest.
Not to speak or glance is best --
To smother the thing that calls so clear
Deep in our thoughts at the spring of the year.
If we stop, if we look, if we speak, if we care,
Nature will snatch us unaware,
Will put us in a house with four
Chairs, a table, and a door
To enslave us evermore.
She means to tie you firm and tight
To a desk from dawn till night
To make you strain and make you sweat
Till you forget, till you forget
All that is good and fine and high.
She will give you fear to keep till you die.
She means to tear my flesh to make
A child to steal my hours awake,
To break my hours asleep, to be
Slayer of the youth in me,
Slayer of the youth in you,
Slayer of that which makes us sing.
Let us never look at Spring;
It is a trap to catch us two.





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