Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WILD CANARIES, by CLARA P. ENTREKIN


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THE WILD CANARIES, by                    
First Line: They came as always at this time of year
Last Line: Their coming proving earth's unbroken law.
Subject(s): Canaries


They came as always at this time of year;
A thread-like twitter, finer than the talk
Of year-round sparrows, told me they were here.
They swept about upon a golden gale,
They stoned the lawn in gusts of gorgeous hail,
And formed bright drifts beside the garden walk.
They sped more active bombs of bolder bloom
Where dandelion hosts had cast sharp doom.
They rose on wings of sunshine to the crest
Of the persimmon -- and the budding haw;
Made yellow outcry I both heard and saw --
In famed magnificence these pilgrims dressed.
-- And so, a few hours in the springs and falls
They flash about my yard like gilded balls,
Their coming proving earth's unbroken law.





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