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GOD'S WEATHER: JULY, by                    
First Line: The heavy shade bends to tall clover and grasses
Last Line: Growing, grateful for grace of hot weather, god's weather.
Subject(s): Months; Summer; Weather


The heavy shade bends to tall clover and grasses.
The fleet bare feet burn where the warped boardwalk passes.
The cherries gleam black under dark branches bending;
The berries hang heavy at the long path's tired ending.

With the phlox and petunias their lavish gifts flinging,
With the larkspurs, the zinnias, the hollyhocks bringing
Their pride and their comfort, the paling gate, swinging,
Leads the path thro' the perfume and early stars peeping
To the vine-covered door, that, a weathered watch keeping,
Opens back thro' the hush of the prayer and the sleeping.

The lifting corn cracks thro' the dark in high feather,
Growing, grateful for grace of hot weather, God's weather.





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