Under Green Leaves by Richard Henry Stoddard

Author:Richard Henry Stoddard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

To the Cicada

WILLIAM ALLINGHAM

(1824–1889)

Cicada! drunk with drops of dew,

What musician equals you,

In the shady solitude?

On a perch amidst the wood,

Scraping to your heart’s desire

Dusky sides with notchy feet,

Shrilling, thrilling, fast and sweet,

Like the music of a lyre.

Dear Cicada! I entreat,

Sing the Dryads something new;

So from thick-embowered seat,

Pan himself may answer you,

Till every inmost glade rejoices

With your loud alternate voices:

And I listen, and forget

All the thorns, the doubts and fears,

Love in lover’s heart may set;

Listen, and forget them all.

And so, with music in mine ears,

Where the plane-tree shadows steep

The ground with coldness, softly fall

Into a noontide sleep.

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