The Man with the Hoe, and Other Poems (Markham, Pyle, 1900)/At Dawn

by Edwin Markham

 

At Dawn

Just then the branches lightly stirred....
See, out o' the apple boughs a bird
Bursts music-mad into the blue abyss:
Rothschild would give his gold for this—
The wealth of nations, if he knew:
(And find a profit in the business, too.)