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Like Lillies of the Field

Like Lillies of the Field Harry Brown Appalachian Heritage, Volume 11, Number 1, Winter 1983, pp. 15-16 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1983.0006 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438416/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:40 GMT from JHU Libraries LIKE LILLIES OF THE FIELD Starting from the barn the cows and calves Head almost north at an angle toward The corner of the pasture fence, And when they reach the corner post turn east To follow farther the path they've worn And likewise follow their fellows one By one by one in a nodding, plodding fashion Like giant bovine puppets jerking along Their wooden route across a spacious stage. The rutted path keeps straight ahead— Not in a perfect line of course, but looping slightly left Or right like a slightly slack backyard cotton line Waiting to host the morning's first wash- Keeps straight ahead till near a rise it curves To turn now north again across the pasture And then slope down to the creek beside York's Pike. Thus this rutted path takes cows and calves From shelter to pasture and finally to water So they need not look behind or up or down Or to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Harry Brown Appalachian Heritage, Volume 11, Number 1, Winter 1983, pp. 15-16 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1983.0006 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438416/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:40 GMT from JHU Libraries LIKE LILLIES OF THE FIELD Starting from the barn the cows and calves Head almost north at an angle toward The corner of the pasture fence, And when they reach the corner post turn east To follow farther the path they've worn And likewise follow their fellows one By one by one in a nodding, plodding fashion Like giant bovine puppets jerking along Their wooden route across a spacious stage. The rutted path keeps straight ahead— Not in a perfect line of course, but looping slightly left Or right like a slightly slack backyard cotton line Waiting to host the morning's first wash- Keeps straight ahead till near a rise it curves To turn now north again across the pasture And then slope down to the creek beside York's Pike. Thus this rutted path takes cows and calves From shelter to pasture and finally to water So they need not look behind or up or down Or to

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Published: Jan 8, 2014

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