Songs, Merry and Sad

Harvest

     Cows in the stall and sheep in the fold;
     Clouds in the west, deep crimson and gold;
      A heron's far flight to a roost somewhere;
      The twitter of killdees keen in the air;
     The noise of a wagon that jolts through the gloam
             On the last load home.

     There are lights in the windows; a blue spire of smoke
     Climbs from the grange grove of elm and oak.
      The smell of the Earth, where the night pours to her
      Its dewy libation, is sweeter than myrrh,
     And an incense to Toil is the smell of the loam
             On the last load home.