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The Milkmaid

6/2/1840-1/11/1928


Under a daisied bank
There stands a rich red ruminating cow,
         And hard against her flank
A cotton-hooded milkmaid bends her brow.

         The flowery river-ooze
Upheaves and falls; the milk purrs in the pail;
         Few pilgrims but would choose
The peace of such a life in such a vale.

         The maid breathes words--to vent,
It seems, her sense of Nature's scenery,
         Of whose life, sentiment,
And essence, very part itself is she.

         She bends a glance of pain,
And, at a moment, lets escape a tear;
         Is it that passing train,
Whose alien whirr offends her country ear? -

         Nay! Phyllis does not dwell
On visual and familiar things like these;
         What moves her is the spell
Of inner themes and inner poetries:

         Could but by Sunday morn
Her gay new gown come, meads might dry to dun,
         Trains shriek till ears were torn,
If Fred would not prefer that Other One.


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