Under the Tree | Page 8

Elizabeth Madox Roberts
jump and beat.
At night before I go to sleep,
I feel it beating in my head;
I hear it
jumping in my neck
And in the pillow on my bed.
And then I make some little words
To go along and say with it--

_The men are sailing home from Troy,
And all the lamps are lit._
_The men are sailing home from Troy,
And all the lamps are lit._

THE HENS
The night was coming very fast;
It reached the gate as I ran past.
The pigeons had gone to the tower of the church
And all the hens
were on their perch,
Up in the barn, and I thought I heard
A piece of a little purring word.
I stopped inside, waiting and staying,
To try to hear what the hens
were saying.
They were asking something, that was plain,
Asking it over and over
again.
One of them moved and turned around,
Her feathers made a ruffled
sound,
A ruffled sound, like a bushful of birds,
And she said her little asking
words.
She pushed her head close into her wing,
But nothing answered
anything.
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