The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1876-02-25
The Farm Yard.
TT ALFRED II. STREET.

The red farm gable paints below
A sharp peaked picture, glossy black;
Drawn with hair pencil on the glow
That melts ut ewes advancing track.
On giidcs the sunsets eastward print;
Up the high hill the luster creeps;
The gold black then one amber tint.
Though the low west its crimson keeps.
No more the nuttcrirg barrow rakes'
The showers tho rir ting scotsman sends;
VIII is seps SLOW Labor takes,
As ,miu, nto lumber Dlends.I
The tired team trudge in jolting stalk,
With sleepy look and sluggish feet,
Through docks aud muileins of The walk,
Down TO the farm. Yards cool retreat.
There awkward roams the stiff, square goat;
The slim, pert colt strides stilted rounp;
Down from their huts the pigeons float,
Shaking their short necks DER the ground.
Tho fowls their nightly perclles seek
On fence aad tree; these hurl the straw
These fight with clashing wings; this. meek,
AS comes the king, shrugs high in awe.
The goose, with scooped neck, Kisses SCOT,
And bites the pony's twitching heels;
Ulcers at the cow, then shuflles cfr,
AZ terrier Sport his clarion peals.
lib sits upon the milk room stairs,
Her front limbs pillar. like before,
Her tail half. circling, as she s,ares
within upon the Dreaming store.
VITA neck that Jerks, and flank that shakes,
Hook, checking her foot tapping course.
trom lowing into believing breaks,
Subsiling 10 n grumble ho1rsp.
SPORT leaps up yelping at the cat
That glarcs with eyes like fiery spots;
Darts, shrieking, at a scamperins rat,
Then, wagging, 10 the v cod house trots.
Old Jupc lavcs lazily his paws,
Gapes, stretches, limb and shoulder streabs,
And, rimming with black tongue his jaws,
with drowsy droop his keanel seeks.
The turkey. cock his plumaPe filings
Up, with Il burst OF dazzling dyes;
shakes his red ~frontlet, grinds His wings,
Then, gobbling. smOoths to half his size.
The space below the cart grows dark;
The barn floors cavity turns black;
The wcll.Ewecp draws a wavering marx;
4 glimmcring mass the neighbOring stack.
The fire. flies wink, things glary blink;
Spade, gravel, hot. house pane; the nook
Swallows the whcelbarrow; lilacs link,
Syringas wear & sable LOOK.
How sweet the violet's rich perfume
Mixed with the breath the lily sends
To I'LL the bland, ambrosisl gloom,
That with the lovely landscape blends.
Beneath the bushes blackness crawls,
Though on the leaves clings feeble light;
Dark stretches tell the gardea walls,
And only outlines meet the sight.
Ts.e evening darkens, brown to blAck;
Perspectves now one sable mass;
Fairgrounds but traceries; q track
OF dusky light the streamlets glass.
The evening STAR grows grand afNr;
The Bear prowls forth; Mars lights his torch
Night Aings apart her starry heart
AS close she shuts her shining po-es,.
Dark masses show the ;recs; the stars
Gold. net;ed in their cloven gloom;
Here. clouds are stretched in frowning bars;
And there, Wild, variant shapes assume.
The gardens pleasant voices sound
Each nightly thing. that walks and aies;
Light airs come creeping Ger the ground,
Then SILVER through the leaves like signs.
On the casts rim a bonfire glares;
1t softening, silveriDg, scars, till soon,
White lights, black shades, in streaks and
squares,
Aboat the farm. yard, show the moon.
TIKI trees are sprinkled; periurnes pour;
Sleep glidcs DER man and bird and beast;
Nights slow. grand, glittcring wheel rolls o'eg
In Days rich car track, toward tho east.
Country GeaYemaa.