Robin Hood's Barn 



Applique of foxglove beUs, 

 Snips of larkspur blue, 



Purple of campanula, 

 Coreopsis spray. 



Is it not a coverlid 

 To make a body gay? 



In autumn it is yellow 



Overcast with leaves, 

 Orange quilt of marigold 



Spread among the sheaves. 

 Dim traceries of asters 



On a tawny ground. 

 Is it not a coverlid 



To keep a body sound? 



A counterpane in winter 



Made of driven snow. 

 Pillowing of feathered down. 



Flounce and furbelow, 

 A blanket folded over, 



Brown beneath the white. 

 Is it not a coverlid 



To warm my thoughts at night? 



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