Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ON THE CONEJO, by AMY REQUA RUSSELL



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ON THE CONEJO, by                    
First Line: Spring will come!
Last Line: Spring will have come!
Subject(s): Spring


Spring will come!
Spring will come!
See! Already a Mexican with sorrel horses
Is plowing his peach orchard,
And the purple-red of peach twigs makes a haze
Against the purple-black of earth,
Glistening wet and newly turned
By his plow.
The grass in the fence corners is up, and yellow-green,
And in the little gulches, flowing with muddy, turgid water,
Pussy willows are out;
Spring is almost here!

When the peach twigs are thick with sturdy pink blossoms,
And the mustard grows up through the grass,
Freshly painting the pastures green-gold,
And the Mexican must plow again
(For God knows earth needs plowing, as He needs praise);
When meadow-larks teeter on the fence posts,
And the winds blow soft and warm in your face,
And violet clouds behind the Malibu
Break, and mass, and break again,
Then you may count on it --
Spring will have come!





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