When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock, And the brown bee d… - Madison Cawein

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When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
And the brown bee drones i' the rose,
And the west is a red-streaked four-o'-clock
And summer is near its close—
It's—Oh for the gate and the lotus lane
And dusk and dew and home again!

Madison Cawein

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Madison Julius Cawein (23 March 1865 – 8 December 1914) was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky, whose poem "Waste Land" has been linked with T.S. Eliot's later The Waste Land.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Alfred Tennyson William Butler Yeats John Keats George William Russell

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There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear,
Out in the wind and the rain:
They who have nothing have little to fear,—
Nothing to lose or to gain.

At daybreak Morn shall come to me
In raiment of the white winds spun.

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