Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON


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MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by                    
First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky
Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm.
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers


This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky
Merges with meadow in a shadowy
Mist softly luminous and unearthly.
The twilight spreads a printless carpet by
The light of one pale star upon the fields
That but a while ago felt plodding hooves.
Here, just before the day completely yields
Tonight's tranquility, suddenly moves
A band of horses, wild with ecstasy!

Unfettered from the wheel, exultantly
They race, with mane and fetlock flashing fire,
And flanks traced black against the waning light,
Their blood as hot as of their winged sire
Pegasus on Mount Helicon in his flight!
With rushing speed of ramping thunder cloud
Threatening the air with raging jettiness,
They trample blades that crumple as they're plowed
With blows striking the boggy soddenness;
And clods are tossed and thud in dull rebound.
The stones are loosened as they paw the ground,
And cluttering, tumbling, fall again to earth
As fabled fountain of Hippocrene
Roared forth in gushing torrent at its birth.
Madly they prance!
. . . And then, mysteriously,
The darkness blots ancient enchantment from
The land that knows again New England calm.





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