Original typescript of Lake Harvest and Peach Buds by Raymond Knister.
Peach Buds
As we wait
In the dark,
In Winter's young Spring-rain
Stricken the lashed drops cling.
In dawn, in the wind
We crispen,
Complaining silverly,
Weeping.
The sun makes fire
With our silver
Over the valley
An hour
As we wait.
(After Exile, page 7)
Part of Seven Poems, published in The Midland: A Magazine of the Middle West in 1922. (Volume 8, Issue 12)