Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Cricket, chirring in the autumn twilight
Last Line: Fare forth singing!
Subject(s): Cricket (game); Mortality; Sports


CRICKET, chirring in the autumn twilight,
Little kinsman,
I, like you, the unknown path must follow
Into darkness, --
One day into darkness.
Would I might, with your ecstatic buoyance,
Fare forth singing!





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