Said a Blade of Grass
Said a blade of grass to an autumn leaf, "You make such a noisefalling! You scatter all my winter dreams."
Said the leaf indignant, "Low-born and low-dwelling! Songless,peevish thing! You live not in the upper air and you cannot tellthe sound of singing."
Then the autumn leaf lay down upon the earth and slept. And whenspring came she waked again--and she was a blade of grass.
And when it was autumn and her winter sleep was upon her, andabove her through all the air the leaves were falling, she mutteredto herself, "O these autumn leaves! They make such noise! Theyscatter all my winter dreams."
Words in this poem
- indignant a.
- Affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath, as when a person is exasperated by unworthy or unjust treatment, by a mean action, or by a degrading accusation. [L. indignans, -antis, p. pr. of indignari to be indignant, disdain. See Indign.]
- songless a.
- Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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