August, Bayard Taylor


Dead is the air, and still! the leaves of the locust and walnut
Lazily hang from the boughs, inlaying their intricate outlines
Rather on space than the sky
-on a tideless expansion of slumber.

- Bayard Taylor, Home Pastorals, August

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