Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: The dreamy rain comes down
Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers


The dreamy rain comes down,
And cotton's in the grass.
The farmers all complain --
But I watch armies pass. . . .

The ones that did not come
From Ivoiry again
Are marching down the road
And whistling in the rain.

The forty-two I saw
In Olsene, prone and pale,
With packs and helmets on
Pass by me, young and hale.

I hear their laughter plain --
Some blasphemous, quaint jest
That livens up their step
More than an hour's rest.

They talk of Montfaucon,
Of Thielt and Chryshautem;
My cotton rows, it seems,
Are turnip fields to them.

It's hard to stay indoors
With soldiers marching by.
And if you've hiked and fought
It's hard until you die.

. . . . .

Dim Flanders rain comes down,
The cotton's in the grass;
But I watch wistfully
Gay phantom armies pass.





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