Classic Poem

A SCARECROW in a field of corn,
A thing of tatters all forlorn,
Once felt the influence of Spring
And fell in love — a foolish thing,
And most particularly so
In his case — for he loved a crow!

" Alack-a-day! it's wrong, I know,
It's wrong for me to love a crow;
An all-wise man created me
To scare the crows away, " cried he;
" And though the music of her " Caw"
Thrills through and through this heart of straw,

" My passion I must put away
And do my duty, come what may!
Yet oh, the cruelty of fate!
I fear she doth reciprocate
My love, for oft at dusk I hear
Her in my cornfield hovering near.

" And once I dreamt — oh, vision blest!
That she alighted on my breast.
'Tis very, very hard, I know,
But all-wise man decreed it so. "
He cried and flung his arm in air,
The very picture of despair.
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Poor Scarecrow, if he could but know!
Even now his lady-love, the Crow,
Sits in a branch, just out of sight,
With her good husband, waiting night,
To pluck from out his sleeping breast
His heart of straw to line her nest.