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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WIND THROUGH THE CORN, by NELL E. MABEY
First Line: A thousand horsemen spurred the tasseled corn
Last Line: Of love is mine -- and laughter all my years.
Subject(s): Corn
First Line: A thousand horsemen spurred the tasseled corn
Last Line: Of love is mine -- and laughter all my years.
Subject(s): Corn
A thousand horsemen spurred the tasseled corn,
The golden stallions reared, each flying mane
A golden fleece! We laughed, it was so plain
The playful wind but mocked a tuba horn!
When winds are roguish, who would be forlorn?
So, laughing still, we parted where the lane
Turns left -- to hear the thousand horsemen rein
Their golden steeds wherever winds are borne.
The winds of God are music's archetype,
Are music's self. What songs they improvise,
Of hope, and wide and beckoning frontiers!
But when I hear them blowing over ripe
And ruddy corn, the prize, the golden prize
Of Love is mine -- and laughter all my years.
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