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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR CHERRIES, by ANONYMOUS First Line: "see those cherries, how they cover" Last Line: Anything -- to save our cherries Subject(s): Cherries;fruit | |||
See those cherries, how they cover Yonder sunny garden wall: Had they not that network over, Thieving birds would eat them all. So, to guard our posts and pensions, Ancient sages wove a net, Through whose holes, of small dimensions, Only certain knaves can get. Shall we then this network widen? Shall we stretch these sacred holes, Through which, even already, slide in Lots of small dissenting souls? "God forbid!' old Testy crieth; "God forbid!' so echo I; Every ravenous bird that flieth Then would ar our cherries fly. Ope but half an inch or so, And, behold, what bevies break in; Here, some cursed old Popish crow Pops his long and lickerish beak in; Here, sly Arians flock unnumbered, And Socinians, slim and spare, Who, with small belief encumbered, Slip in easy any where; Methodists, of birds the aptest, Where there's pecking going on; And that water-fowl, the Baptist -- All would share our fruits anon; Ev'ry bird, of ev'ry city, That, for years, with ceaseless din, Hath reversed the starling's ditty, Singing out "I can't get in.' "God forbid!' old Testy snivels; "God forbid!' I echo too; Rather may ten thousand devils Seize the whole voracious crew! If less costly fruit won't suit 'em, Hips and haws, and such like berries, Curse the corm'rants! stone 'em, shoot 'em, Any thing -- to save our cherries. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CROSSED APPLE by LOUISE BOGAN TO MY CLASS: ON CERTAIN FRUITS AND FLOWERS SENT ... SICKNESS by SIDNEY LANIER APPLES OF HESPERIDES by AMY LOWELL THE LAST DAY OF AUGUST by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD by KENNETH REXROTH TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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