Original typescript of Stable-Talk by Raymond Knister.
Stable-Talk
We have sweat our share;
The harrow is caught full of sod-pieces,
The bright discs are misted yellow in the wet.
Hear tardy hesitant drips from the eaves!
Let the rain work now.
We can rest today.
Let the dozy eye,
The one raised hip
Give no hint to the hours.
We are not done with toil:
Let rain work in these hours,
Wind in the night’s hours,
We with the sun together
Tomorrow.
Midland Ontario
(After Exile, page 26)
Part of Seven Poems, published in The Midland: A Magazine of the Middle West in 1922. (Volume 8, Issue 12)