Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, VALLEY LILIES, by NELLIE S. RICHARDSON


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VALLEY LILIES, by                    
First Line: Month of bold winds, you are stealing the snow
Last Line: Do not uncover them, march, till the last.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilies


Month of bold winds, you are stealing the snow!
Why do you hurry away from us so?
Baring the ground ... deep rutted and wet ...
Showing too soon where the lilies were set
Out on the bank, when the crinkled and gold
Had changed to a blanket of deep brown mold.

Someone was calling ... left spade in the sod
Out near the sumac and loved golden-rod ...
Covered with rust. March, March, do you know
Why I am dreading to see you go?

Too near the highway, all trampled and trod.
(Such was her faith in humanity—God.)
In your brave warring, blow over and past:
Do not uncover them, March, till the last.





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