Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, END OF DROUTH, by GEORGIA MOORE EBERLING


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END OF DROUTH, by                    
First Line: The healing rains have come, and once again
Last Line: And meadow-larks fling out their happy lay.
Subject(s): Colorado (state); Drought


The healing rains have come, and once again
Our Colorado prairies are in bloom,
The fields are laced with color like a loom
On which a weaver makes his pattern plain.
The verdant sheen of swiftly-growing grain
Gleams brightly, like a carpet on a room
That long has lain without one, and all gloom
Has fled, like dust before the slanting rain.

So Nature works to cover man's mistakes,
And where the dust once rose in swirling spray
Now yellow cactus smiles, the yucca shakes
Its plumy stalks, and fragrant bluebells sway.
The cattle stand knee-deep in fresh-formed lakes
And meadow-larks fling out their happy lay.





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