Nature Laughs at Time-Pieces - Magpie Tales

                                Not for her, Man's silly watches, keeping

                                Manufactured time, turning eternal

                                Tracts of forever into infernal

                                Seconds and minutes bounded by beeping.

                                No, not for her, the minute hand creeping,

                                Alarm clocks ticking order external,

                                Making the rules for lives once diurnal 
                                Setting strict hours for waking and sleeping . . .
 
                                Her time is reckoned by the Great Bear's pace
                                Circling the lynch pin of the starry skies . . .
                                Hot summer's fecund growth . . . late swarming bees . . .
                                Slow fall of crisping leaves . . . bright ice's trace.
                                Her clocks are dandelions and brief May-flies
                                And cuckoos calling from the spring-green trees.

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