Sidney Lanier,
The Waving of the Corn
“ Do stir with thanks to thee, as stirs this morn With waving of the corn. Unseen, the farmer’s boy from round the hill Whistles a snatch that seeks his soul unsought, And fills some time with tune, howbeit shrill; The cricket tells straight on his simple thought— Nay, ’tis the cricket’s way of being still; The peddler bee drones in, and gossips naught; Far down the wood, a one-desiring dove Times me the beating of the heart of love: And these be all the sounds that mix, each morn, With waving of the corn. ”
