Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A HOUSE IN THE HEDGE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE


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First Line: All architecture done, / and housekeeping begun
Last Line: God's smile come radiant through.
Subject(s): Birds; Family Life; Home; Relatives


ALL architecture done,
And housekeeping begun,
The mother warms with joy
Her coming maid or boy.

Her husband in a tree
Pours out his heart in glee,
And tells the evening star
How blue his treasures are.

Crescendos of delight
From blackthorn take their flight,
And then the calmer stress
Of whispered loveliness.

His wife so meek is pent
Within the leafy tent,
And God instructs her breast
To linger on the nest.

At last in tangled quick
There cries the sudden chick;
Within the maze of thorn
To birds a son is born!

With baby chirp and cheep
Three other children peep.
O commonwealth of bills
For unimagined trills,

Old Time shall bring you up
Together in a cup!
And then in season due
Shall sons be born to you!

So Spring next year shall fledge
The infants of the hedge;
These very stars shall look
On love's unfingered nook.

With fatherly delight
The bird shall thrill the night;
To mound and mead be lent
The voices of content.

If every human nest
Contained so pure a breast,
If every husband gave
To home the merry stave,

Methinks that life would pass
More sweet for lad and lass,
And, piercing deeps of blue,
God's smile come radiant through.





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