After the Winters (1919)

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After the Winters (1919)
by Claude McKay
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After the Winters

Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
     And against the morning’s white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
     Have sheltered for the night,
We’ll turn our faces southward, love,
     Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire the shafted grove
     And wide-mouthed orchids smile.

And we will seek the quiet hill
     Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
     And works the droning bee.
And we will build a lonely nest
     Beside an open glade,
and there forever we will rest,
     O love–O nut-brown maid.


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