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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER WHEAT, by EVA WILLES WANGSGAARD Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lie these seeded furrows under snow
Last Line: Find loam will break as surely from the dark?
Subject(s): Wheat; Winter
First Line: Here lie these seeded furrows under snow
Last Line: Find loam will break as surely from the dark?
Subject(s): Wheat; Winter
Here lie these seeded furrows under snow,
Sparkling and white as scarves that Sheba wore,
But far more frail; for when the wild geese soar
Northward again this brittle thread shall go.
The steaming loam shall break where row on row
The seeds demand the sun. An open door
Shall beckon life where death has lain before
And waken blackbirds to their glad rondeau.
For time has always worked this miracle
Of crystals giving way to greening blade
And then to gold above the nesting lark.
Some morning when the blackbird anthems swell,
Shall I who bent in sun above a spade,
Find loam will break as surely from the dark?
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