A half-starved flock of little city strays,
They sit expectant in the warm school-room,
Lighting with their wan smiles its ordered gloom
And breaking the smooth current of its ways
With eager shuffle. He in rags displays
Bare feet all dusty from the weaving-loom.
And she the stamp of early, tragic doom,
In sunken cheeks and fervent, hollow gaze.
But now they hear blue waters beating free
Upon the prows of Jason’s gliding ships;
Now, shadowed by the dragon’s brazen wings,
They pluck the golden apples from his tree,
And, draining this sweet cup with thirsty lips,
Soar in a land of rainbow-tinted things.
(Laura Benet)
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