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All cries are thin and terse;
The field has droned the summer’s final mass;
A cricket like a dwindled hearse
Crawls from the dry grass. - Richard Wilbur
Attribution: Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. Exeunt (l. 5–8). . . Poems That Live Forever. Hazel Felleman, ed. (1965) Doubleday & Company.

Categories: Country Life, Nature, Summer

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