Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MILKING, by ELLEN DANIELS PANTER



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MILKING, by                    
First Line: Thrum, thrum, thrum! With a spurt and a splash
Last Line: Loiter to pasture -- milking's done!
Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids


Thrum, thrum, thrum! With a spurt and a splash,
Into the bucket the white streams flash.

High overhead the cottonwood leaves
Dance tiptoe in the evening breeze.

Is that a dryad peeping there?
Or the golden gleam of a fairy's hair?

So, boss, so! Don't stir one hoof!
There's a hungry babe 'neath yon brown roof.

A pat on old bossy -- smooth as silk!
Thanks, faithful friend, for fresh rich milk!

Milk for dear grandmother in the house,
Milk for the kitten -- just dined on mouse.

Milk for your calfie, whose bright round eyes
Gaze from its pen in quaint surprise.

Long grow the shadows, down sinks the sun;
Loiter to pasture -- milking's done!





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