Counting-out Rhyme

The classic poem for this issue of The Fairfield Review features a piece by Edna St. Vincent Millay, fitting for the spring-summer season. --egh

Counting-out Rhyme
By Edna St. Vincent Millay

Silver bark of beech, and sallow
Bark of yellow birch and yellow

Twig of willow.

Stripe of green in moosewood maple,
Colour seen in leaf of apple,

Bark of popple.

Wood of popple pale as moonbeam,
Wood of oak for yoke and barn-beam,

Wood of hornbeam.

Silver bark of beech, and hollow
Stem of elder, tall and yellow

Twig of willow.

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