Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CONTRADICTION, by ELIZABETH E. FOULKE


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CONTRADICTION, by                    
First Line: Today the wind toys with the trees
Last Line: Are you the wind, shall I believe?
Subject(s): Wind


Today the wind toys with the trees
As if to set them at their ease --
His movements gentle, sure to please.

Last night in sullen, vengeful mood,
He flayed their limbs -- a vandal rude,
Till crumpled leaves the pavement strewed.

How can such ways be reconciled --
Now, gentle, now tempestuous, wild?
Both friend and foe, shall he be styled?

And you -- so loving yester-eve
Beginning now, to make me grieve!
Are you the wind, shall I believe?





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