Poems (Coates 1916)/Volume I/Through the Rushes

by Florence Earle Coates

For other versions of this work, see Through the Rushes.

THROUGH THE RUSHES

THROUGH the rushes by the river
⁠Runs a drowsy tremor sweet,
And the waters stir and shiver
⁠In the darkness at their feet;
From the sombre east up-stealing,
Gradual, with slow revealing,
Comes the dawn, and with a sigh
⁠⁠Night goes by.

Here and there, to mildest wooing,
⁠Folded buds are open-blown;
And the drops their leaves bedewing,
⁠Like to seed-pearls thickly sown,
Sinking, with the blessing olden,
Deep into each calyx golden,
A supreme behest obey,
⁠⁠Then melt away.

And while robes of splendor trailing,
⁠Fitly deck the glowing morn,
And a fragrance, fresh exhaling,
⁠Greets her loveliness new-born,
Midst divine melodic voicings,
Midst delicious mute rejoicings,
Strong as when the worlds began,
⁠⁠Awakens Pan!