Poems (Hoffman)/Cherry Time
CHERRY TIME(In Santa Clara Valley)
Merrily mounting ladder and limb,The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin, The chimney's purple spiral Curling through the morning mist, The wild rose-linnet's carol From the cherry orchard, list! Ripple of laugh and repartee Vibrating gaily from tree to tree, Maidens in fresh-ironed calicoes Sit in the packing-house in rows.Merrily mounting ladder and limb,The cherry-picker swings his pail of tin.
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How often Virtue rears an humble stone,In shade of Vice's sculptured mausoleum;The greatest heroes Truth has ever known,Error and Ignorance hastened to condemn.