Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LET US TAKE LEAVE OF HASTE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD


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First Line: Let us take leave of haste awhile
Last Line: Come, comrade, let us try!
Subject(s): Calm; Greed; Haste; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Avarice; Cupidity


LET us take leave of haste awhile,
And loiter, well content,
With little pleasure to beguile,
And small habiliment; --

Just a wide sweep of rain-washed sky,
A flower, a bird-note sweet;
Some easy trappings worn awry;
Loose latchets for our feet;

A wheaten loaf within our scrip;
For drink the hillside spring,
And for true heart-companionship
The love of loitering.

We want so much, and yet we need
So very slight a store,
But in the age's grip of greed
We hurry more and more.

The woodland weaves its gold-green net;
The warm wind lazes by;
Can we forego? can we forget?
Come, comrade, let us try!





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