Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ASPENS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS


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First Line: All day and night, save winter, every weather
Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward
Subject(s): Aspen Trees; Trees


All day and night, save winter, every weather,
Above the inn, the smithy and the shop,
The aspens at the cross-roads talk together
Of rain, until their last leaves fall from the top.
Out of the blacksmith's cavern comes the ringing
Of hammer, shoe and anvil; out of the inn
The clink, the hum, the roar, the random singing -
The sounds that for these winter nights begin.
All day and night, save winter, they are making
In the warm darkness, miraculous repair,
And here and there some beauty does the waking,
Till summer when again they're caught aflare.
And we, too, from the trivial workaday
World's yoke and burden, shall have rest, and come
Down the dim slopes to where, a stillness through,
The aspens hold perpetual council. Thin
Flame-like, they flower upon their branching stems,
Whose slender, crowding, leaves are bright of hue
Against the cold, discussed November sky.






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