Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of course there's a tree to listen to
Last Line: And that is a thousand pities.
Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sound; Bedtime


Of course there's a tree to listen to,
And stars if you can hear them,
And cattle breathing in the byre,
And an ash falling from the fire.
But what I mostly turn in bed
To hear is the early wheat,
Growing in the north meadow
Under the late sleet.

It isn't so much what it says
I listen to -- not that;
But just to the sound of growing
Without thinking or knowing.
Of course something must tell it how,
But I have lived in cities
Too long to know what does --
And that is a thousand pities.





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