“Soft April sunshine sweetens all the world,
Yes, even the county-town with smells of spring;
And life is busy where the green blades shoot
Through last year’s matted grasses, and crisp leaves
At mid-forenoon light up the little maples
Set pioneering in the square’s raw sod.
Across the three blocks of untidy street,
Thirty low structures skirmish with their mates
In naked staring. At one windowed box
Some twelve feet square, team, wagon, driver stand;
The farmer in gray jeans, form unrelaxed,
And face without a mask, trouble writ large.
The open door slowly emits a man
Knee-sprung, with hunching shoulders, wrinkly neck,
And a beaked and bulbous face with narrowing eyes,
To note for the mortgage Billy’s three white feet,
And Molly’s star in forehead,- sixteen hands,
Weight over eleven-fifty,- and their ages,
Eight years and ten.
The farmer follows in;
Stands downcast, watching what a nervous frown
Pursues the scratching pen on the chattel form.
Now speaks a throaty voice:
“”At three per cent,
Four months, twelve dollars,- and leaves eighty-eight.
And you’ll have wheat to sell when the note is due.”
In the sun the farmer straightens, mounts his seat.
How listlessly the wagon rattles off
Through April sunshine and the smells of spring.
(Edwin Ford Piper)”
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