Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="AN_ETCHING" id="AN_ETCHING"></SPAN>An Etching</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">A</span> HARVESTER throws up the sheaves,<br/></span> <span class="i2">And hums a merry old refrain,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Some thistles show their prickly leaves<br/></span> <span class="i2">Among the swaths of yellow grain.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The briar bushes soft and green<br/></span> <span class="i2">Quite hide the zig-gag fence away,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And all the space that lies between<br/></span> <span class="i1">Is carpeted with new-mown hay.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">The heat of noonday presses all<br/></span> <span class="i2">To rest and silence, full and deep,<br/></span> <span class="i0">And still the cheery robins call<br/></span> <span class="i2">To show that they are not asleep.<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_207" id="page_207"></SPAN>{207}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />