NIGHT-TIME PASTORAL

NIGHT-TIME PASTORAL

(in Douglas, Massachusetts)

 

Quietly the snow was falling

In our southern town…

Douglas, near Rhode Island’s border

Wrapped in eider-down.

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One o’clock in early morning

Silent streets uncleared….

White and grey outside’s adornment,

Warm and safe in here.

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Quietude but for a moment,

Distant moaning from the trees…

Signals that the storm’s not over

Drifts fill in the leas.

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Perhaps by morning’s dawning glory

Two feet or so will fall…

‘Til then we can tell the story,

The quaintness of it all.

 

–Jonathan Caswell