The Cow In Apple Time

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Source: Project Gutenberg eBooks #3021 (A Boy's Will, 1913), #3026 (North of Boston, 1914) and #29345 (Mountain Interval, 1916) Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3021 Public domain basis: Complete texts of Frost's first three books. Public domain (published 1913–1916). Coverage: Complete individual poem extracted from parent edition frost-early-poems at bytes 158218-158748; checksum 893f1ab262cb47c0a02464c1e27593276935db53aab50bbf0ed8a58d6a85efaf.

# The Cow In Apple Time

The Cow In Apple Time

Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think no more of wall-builders than fools. Her face is flecked with pomace and she drools A cider syrup. Having tasted fruit, She scorns a pasture withering to the root. She runs from tree to tree where lie and sweeten The windfalls spiked with stubble and worm-eaten. She leaves them bitten when she has to fly. She bellows on a knoll against the sky. Her udder shrivels and the milk goes dry.