Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE EXPECTATION, by RICHARD LAWSON GALES


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First Line: Over the apple-trees with their red load
Last Line: The earth will bear her longed-for perfect fruit.
Subject(s): Christmas; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pregnancy; Women In The Bible; Nativity, The; Virgin Mary


OVER the apple-trees with their red load
In world's-end orchards, over dark yew woods,
O'er fires of sunset glassed in wizard streams,
O'er mill and meadow of those farthest lands,
Over the reapers, over the sere sails
Of homing ships and every breaking wave,
Over the haven and the entrancëd town,
O'er hearths aflame with fir-trunks and fir-cones,
Over the children playing in the streets,
Over the harpers harping on the bridge,
O'er lovers in their dream and their desire,
There falls from the high heaven a subtle sense
Of presage and a deep, expectant hush,
And the wise watchers know the time draws on
And that amid the snows of that same year
The earth will bear her longed-for perfect Fruit.





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