Summer Evening
The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair
Mews at his knee for dainty fare;
Old Rover in his moss-greened house
Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse
In the dewy fields the cattle lie
Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky
Dobbin at manger pulls his hay:
Gone is another summer's day.
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Walter de la Mare (1873-1956)
from Peacock Pie, 1913
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Walter de la Mare biography
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