Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SCARECROW, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE


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First Line: All winter through I bow my head
Last Line: For harvest once again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Scarecrows


All winter through I bow my head
Beneath the driving rain;
The North Wind powders me with snow
And blows me black again;
At midnight in a maze of stars
I flame with glittering rime,
And stand, above the stubble, stiff
As mail at morning-prime.
But when that child, called Spring, and all
His host of children, come,
Scattering their buds and dew upon
These acres of my home,
Some rapture in my rags awakes;
I lift void eyes and scan
The skies for crows, those ravening foes,
Of my strange master, Man.
I watch him striding lank behind
His clashing team, and know
Soon will the wheat swish body high
Where once lay sterile snow;
Soon shall I gaze across a sea
Of sun-begotten grain,
Which my unflinching watch hath sealed
For harvest once again.





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