Had fallen a fragrant shower;
The leaves were dripping yet;
Each fern and rain-weighed flower
Around were gleaming wet;
On ev’ry bosky bower
A million gems were set.
The dust’s moist odors sifted
Cool with the summer rain,
Mixed with the musk that drifted
From orchard and from plain;–
Her garden’s fence white lifted
Its length along the lane.
The moon the clouds had shattered
In curdled peaks of pearl;
The honeysuckle scattered
Warm odors from each curl,
Where the white moonlight, flattered,
Hung molten ’round a girl.
Then grew the night completer
With light and cloud and air;
Aromas sweet blew sweeter,
Sweet flowers fair, more fair;
Fleet feet and fast grew fleeter
Thro’ that fair sorceress there.
(Madison Julius Cawein)
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