Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BABY CALF, by EVELYN DORIO


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BABY CALF, by                    
First Line: One clover-winded hour when morning sky
Last Line: That she had known our welcome house to choose!
Subject(s): Calves


One clover-winded hour when morning sky
Lay primrose mild, we peered inside the shed
Where drowsed a new-born calf upon her bed.
How stirred we felt! We almost had to cry
To watch how mooley licked her baby dry
From gawky legs and up her nodding head.
We feared she might not know and hurt instead
Her frightened one that blinked so meek and shy.
We pulled a mound of scented garden grass
For baby calf, and flicked away the flies --
We must not let her tender body bruise;
Then found a treasured gumdrop in a glass
And begged her lick it slow. And said how wise
That she had known our welcome house to choose!





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