Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SALVAGE, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS



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SALVAGE, by                    
First Line: I heard the crickets all about
Last Line: Against the winter and the dark.
Subject(s): Crickets; Nature


I HEARD the crickets all about,
Drunk with sunshine, shout and shout.
Mountain-cranberry by the ledge,
Fingering the sun-warmed edge,
Fed its berries round and red
On the mountain's flinty bread,
And the hazel crooked its stalk
To nurse its nuts against the rock.
In the seam—O fair, fair, fair!—
Feathered grasses shone like hair;
Up there on the mountain-side
They had yielded seed, and died.

—This much I was quick to mark,
Against the winter and the dark.





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