Rural School Leaflet 



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ANIMAL STUDY 



" "Twixt bloom that blanches 

 The orchard branches 

 Old farms and ranches 

 Gleam in the gloam; 

 'Mid blossoms blowing, 

 Through fields for sowing, 

 The cows come lowing, 

 The cows come home. 



Where ways are narrow, 

 A vesper-sparrow 

 Flits like an arrow 



Of living rhyme; 

 The red sun poises, 

 And farmyard noises 

 Mix with glad voices 



Of milking- time." 



From " Beech Blooms," by Madison Cawein 



