Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by PAUL SANDOZ


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THE UNKNOWN EARTH, by                    
First Line: In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt
Last Line: And every worm is cool and green and proud.
Subject(s): Earth; Spring; World


In the cold rain the scents of spring will hurt:
This morning I have followed them with pain.
Nature becomes a jade, a bitter flirt,
Remembering what she must forget again.
The sky is like a winter skating pond;
I am evasive, and a little older.
The hundred trees in sight are limp and blond,
Leaning against Spring's flushed and girlish shoulder.

The old men with umbrellas, girls in boots,
And children driving galleys through the gutter:
A graceless reveller hid behind a cloud. . . .
The earth beneath is pierced and bound with roots,
While in the kitchen Jack eats bread and butter,
And every worm is cool and green and proud.





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