"Mark"
by Ernest McGaffey (1861-?) |
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THE HEAVY mists have crept away,
Heavily swims the
sun,
And dim in mystic cloudlands gray
The stars fade
one by one;
Out of the dusk enveloping
Come marsh and
sky and tree,
Where erst has rested night's dark ring
Over the Kankakee.
"Mark right!" Afar and faint
outlined
A flock of mallards fly,
We crouch within the
reedy blind
Instantly at the cry.
"Mark left!" We peer
through wild rice-blades,
And distant shadows see,
A
wedge-shaped phalanx from the shades
Of far-off Kankakee.
"Mark overhead!" A canvas-back!
"Mark! mark!" A bunch
of teal!
And swiftly on each flying track
Follows the
shotgun's peal;
Thus rings that call, till twilight's
tide
Rolls in like some gray sea,
And whippoorwills
complain beside
The lonely Kankakee. |
By Ernest McGaffey (1861-?)
Listed January 14, 2013 |
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