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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A GRASSHOPPER, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND
First Line: Frail truant, from your pleasant fare
Last Line: The cold indifference of stone.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers
First Line: Frail truant, from your pleasant fare
Last Line: The cold indifference of stone.
Subject(s): Grasshoppers
Frail truant, from your pleasant fare
In autumn fields, your green retreat,
How came you on the City Square
Amid the rush of wheels and feet?
From stinging rain of argent days,
Your harbor was the friendly tree,
And in the burning noonday haze
You knew the leaf's cool sanctity.
But they are gone, those drowsy hours
Fragrant with pleasure newly blown.
You have exchanged for friendly flowers
The cold indifference of stone.
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