Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AUCTION, by LEONE RICE GRELLE


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First Line: How much am I bid for a proud old wall
Last Line: And what for a heart, when the sale is done?
Subject(s): Money


How much am I bid for a proud old wall
That a forefather built in the long ago?
And how much for the acres, the reaching rods
That climb the way that the tall winds know?

And what will they give for the rambling barn
That brought and sheltered the new-born things
That knew his love, in their helplessness?
And what is the price his silence brings?

And who will offer a worthwhile sum
For a house that was never a house to me,
But a home? and what for a pasture gate
And a spring, and the soul of a hemlock tree?

And how much for the road that searched the hill
And led his feet to the setting sun
When his work was finished, his great hands still? . . .
And what for a heart, when the sale is done?





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