The Gardener 76
The fair was on before the temple. It had rained from the earlymorning and the day came to its end.Brighter than all the gladness of the crowd was the bright smileof a girl who bought for a farthing a whistle of palm leaf.The shrill joy of that whistle floated above all laughter and noise.An endless throng of people came and jostled together. The roadwas muddy, the river in flood, the field under water in ceaselessrain.Greater than all the troubles of the crowd was a little boy'strouble--he had not a farthing to buy a painted stick.His wistful eyes gazing at the shop made this whole meeting of men so pitiful.
Words in this poem
- ceaseless a.
- Without pause or end; incessant.
- wistful a.
- Longing; wishful; desirous. [For wishful; perhaps influenced by wistly, which is probably corrupted from OE. wisly certainly (from Icel. viss certain, akin to E. wit). See Wish.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
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