Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON HEARING THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRAISED, by ETHEL MARY DAVIS


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ON HEARING THE CLIMATE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PRAISED, by                    
First Line: There are some places where
Last Line: And my delight is an unknown tomorrow.
Subject(s): California; Deserts; Food & Eating


There are some places where
The soft, languorous air,
Knowing not frost nor chill,
Is prodigal with bloom on meadow, field, and hill.
There, is perpetual ease, and no dismay
Lest some clear night strip every bloom away,
And the steep summer sun
Leans never to the south, her year's work done.

But would you have perpetual blossoming,
And lose with that the rapture of each spring?

Give me bleak days! To see
The tight buds opening on one chestnut tree,
New ivy on a wall,
Or any shrub or bush, however small,
Burst into bloom, is worth all winter's stay,
And chill, and long delay.
Her winds are but the harsh prelude of spring, --
And winter is a soon forgotten thing!

So with the changing faces of the year
We keep expectancy, -- what is more dear?
April from March or yet from May might borrow,
And my delight is an unknown tomorrow.





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