Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE WATER HOLE, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD


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First Line: I'd rather lie on my rye grass bed
Last Line: Of silence all around.
Subject(s): Wells


I'd rather lie on my rye-grass bed
Where the sun fights with the willow,
My saddle underneath my head,
My blanket for a pillow,
Than on the silk of palaces.
On the rye-grass let me lie,
Amid the desert quietness,
The bigness of the sky.
I'd rather lie on the dry rye-grass
Than the softest bed of all --
By the water-hole, where the cattle pass,
The magpies scream and call;
Chewing my soul as a cow her cud,
With not a word or sound --
The sky above, and the desert flood
Of silence all around.





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