April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="PRAIRIE_SPRING" id="PRAIRIE_SPRING"></SPAN>PRAIRIE SPRING</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">E</span>vening and the flat land,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Rich and somber and always silent;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The miles of fresh-plowed soil,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The growing wheat, the growing weeds,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The toiling horses, the tired men;<br/></span> <span class="i0">The long, empty roads,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sullen fires of sunset, fading,<br/></span> <span class="i0">The eternal, unresponsive sky.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Against all this, Youth,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flaming like the wild roses,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Singing like the larks over the plowed fields,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flashing like a star out of the twilight;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Youth with its insupportable sweetness,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its fierce necessity,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Its sharp desire;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Singing and singing,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Out of the lips of silence,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Out of the earthy dusk.<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_57" id="page_57">{57}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />