September, 1918
\nby Amy Lowell<\/p>\n
This afternoon was the colour of water falling through sunlight;
\nThe trees glittered with the tumbling of leaves;
\nThe sidewalks shone like alleys of dropped maple leaves,
\nAnd the houses ran along them laughing out of square, open windows.
\nUnder a tree in the park,
\nTwo little boys, lying flat on their faces,
\nWere carefully gathering red berries
\nTo put in a pasteboard box.
\nSome day there will be no war,
\nThen I shall take out this afternoon
\nAnd turn it in my fingers,
\nAnd remark the sweet taste of it upon my palate,
\nAnd note the crisp variety of its flights of leaves.
\nTo-day I can only gather it
\nAnd put it into my lunch-box,
\nFor I have time for nothing
\nBut the endeavour to balance myself
\nUpon a broken world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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