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FARM NIGHT, by                    
First Line: Now, silence resting on the silvered hill
Last Line: A thought which has a word that all may learn.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Silence; Agriculture; Farmers


Now, silence resting on the silvered hill,
Has dropped a velvet mantle in the field,
Soft and black, it's lying very still
Across the valley, which is half concealed.
And even rain must tiptoe on the grass,
It fearing lest it wake the sleeping night
The wind is shut outside, it cannot pass,
Only the step of silence has this right.
But nearer, nearer creeps the little rain
In and out the lilacs and the eaves
It's seeking all its secret joys again.
With silence, now, contentedly one leaves
A bell that has no footstep in the fern --
A thought which has a word that all may learn.





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