Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | VI. Animate Nature | | The Flight of the Geese | | Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) |
| | | I HEAR the low wind wash the softening snow, | |
| The low tide loiter down the shore. The night, | |
| Full filled with April forecast hath no light. | |
| The salt wave on the sedge-flat pulses slow. | |
| Through the hid furrows lisp in murmurous flow | 5 |
| The thaw’s shy ministers; and hark! The height | |
| Of heaven grows weird and loud with unseen flight | |
| Of strong hosts prophesying as they go! | |
| High through the drenched and hollow night their wings | |
| Beat northward hard on winter’s trail. The sound | 10 |
| Of their confused and solemn voices, borne | |
| Athwart the dark to their long arctic morn, | |
| Comes with a sanction and an awe profound, | |
| A boding of unknown, foreshadowed things. | | | | |
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