Come wind and rain!
Twist the weather vane!
Make the cock dance to and fro!
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Come snowy nights
Down from rocky heights!
Make the school tell the kids "Don't go!"
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Come waves to the cliffs,
Crash wondrous gifts,
All up and down the coast.
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Come leaves to the farm
From a bent tree's arm,
And gather 'round the old gate post.
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Come thunder to the skies,
Come lightning to our eyes,
Come cool and windy showers,
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Up over the wall,
The gray garden wall.
Sweep through the delicate flowers.
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Come morning mist
To our daily tryst,
Under the apple trees.
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Come perfect kiss,
Come sighs, come bliss,
On a lost time's better reprise.
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Let nature be awake!
Let it caper; let it shake!
Bid her sullen sleep adieu!
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Awake and aglow,
Beyond the window,
In which I share heaven with you.
YOU ARE READING
The Wheat Field Tree
PoetryThirty Short Poems. Cover--A Wheatfield With Cypresses, by Vincent van Gogh, 1889
