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First Line: Now are the valleys brown 'twixt bluest hills
Last Line: And they walking two and two, queens by their gowns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Brown (color); Nature; Spring; Trees


NOW are the valleys brown 'twixt bluest hills,
From the thick branches bursts the leaf to flower,
Wild for the Spring-time world to feast their fill
Of new life and beauty in the magic hour.

Tight buds unswathing on the sap-filled tree,
Brown trees and purple on the azure dark,
Brown in the heather now the questing bee,
Brown to the sapphire heights upsprings the lark.

Deep in the valley is an amber gleam,
Brown gold the river goes and flecked with foam,
Makes a small music now, faint as in dream,
And it going to the sea as a child runs home.

Over the dim blue hills a wild fire shows
Honey of the gorse now and shaken gold,
Lambs calling to the sheep and the sheep knows
The call of her tender one a few hours old.

Now in the shadowy hour the slight trees wear
Amber and the russet, and all the browns,
Veils of the purple on the hidden hair,
And they walking two and two, queens by their gowns.





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