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The Grass · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The grass, the grass so little has to do. A
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  Speaker 1: sphere of simple green with only butterflies to brood and
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  Speaker 1: bees to entertain. And stir all day to pretty tunes
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  Speaker 1: the breezes fetch along. And hold the sunshine in its
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  Speaker 1: lap and bow to everything. And thread the dews all
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  Speaker 1: night like pearls and make myself so fine.
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  Speaker 2: A duchess were too common for such a noticing.
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  Speaker 1: And even when it dies, to pass in odors so divine,
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  Speaker 1: as lowly spices gone to sleep, or amulets of pine.
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  Speaker 1: And then to dwell in sovereign barns, and dream the
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  Speaker 1: days away. The grass so little has to do, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I were the hay.