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A MEADOW TRAGEDY by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER

First Line: HERE'S A MEADOW FULL OF SUNSHINE
Last Line: AND A SONG UP IN THE SKY.
Subject(s): BIRDS; FIELDS; HARVEST; PASTURES; MEADOWS; LEAS;

HERE'S a meadow full of sunshine
Ripe grasses lush and high;
There's a reaper on the roadway,
And a lark hangs in the sky.

There's a nest of love enclosing
Three little beaks that cry;
The reaper's in the meadow
And a lark hangs in the sky.

Here's a mead all full of summer,
And tragedy goes by
With a knife amongst the grasses,
And a song up in the sky.



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