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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GRASSHOPPER, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poet's Biography
First Line: Shuttle of the sunburnt grass
Last Line: Fifer of the elfin men!
Subject(s): Grasshoppers
First Line: Shuttle of the sunburnt grass
Last Line: Fifer of the elfin men!
Subject(s): Grasshoppers
SHUTTLE of the sunburnt grass,
Fifer in the dun cuirass,
Fifing shrilly in the morn,
Shrilly still at eve unworn;
Now to rear, now in the van,
Gayest of the elfin clan:
Though I watch their rustling flight,
I can never guess aright
Where their lodging-places are;
'Mid some daisy's golden star,
Or beneath a roofing leaf,
Or in fringes of a sheaf,
Tenanted as soon as bound!
Loud thy reveille doth sound,
When the earth is laid asleep,
And her dreams are passing deep,
On mid-August afternoons;
And through all the harvest moons,
Nights brimmed up with honeyed peace,
Thy gainsaying doth not cease.
When the frost comes, thou art dead;
We along the stubble tread,
On blue, frozen morns, and note
No least murmur is afloat:
Wondrous still our fields are then,
Fifer of the elfin men!
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