From Part Two: Nature LXXVIII
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| James Bourret Fine Art Photography |
[Memorize for one point extra credit per line. Learn at least 6 lines. Note on extra credit: Extra Credit Points are not added onto your grade unless you have completed all major assignments and tests.]
| THESE are the days when birds come back, | ||||||
| A very few, a bird or two, | ||||||
| To take a backward look. | ||||||
| These are the days when skies resume | ||||||
| The old, old sophistries of June,— | 5 | |||||
| A blue and gold mistake. | ||||||
| Oh, fraud that cannot cheat the bee, | ||||||
| Almost thy plausibility | ||||||
| Induces my belief, | ||||||
| Till ranks of seeds their witness bear, | 10 | |||||
| And softly through the altered air | ||||||
| Hurries a timed leaf! | ||||||
| Oh, sacrament of summer days, | ||||||
| Oh, last communion in the haze, | ||||||
| Permit a child to join, | 15 | |||||
| Thy sacred emblems to partake, | ||||||
| Thy consecrated bread to break, | ||||||
| Taste thine immortal wine! |
