Poem: “Mowing” by Robert Frost

 There was never a sound beside the wood but one,

And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself;

Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun,

Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound – 

And that was why it whispered and did not speak.

It was no dream of the gift of idle hours,

Or easy gold and the hand of fay or elf:

Anything more than the truth would have seemed too weak

To the earnest love that laid the swale in rows,

Not without feeble-pointed spikes of flowers

(Pale orchises), and scared a bright green snake.

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows

My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make.