Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year · E. C. Hartwell
1. Put yourself in the author's place and try to
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visualize this scene as he viewed it. Tell what you see. From what position are you looking?
ON THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET
BY JOHN KEATS
The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead; That is the grasshopper's—he takes the lead 5 In summer luxury—he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed. The poetry of earth is ceasing never: On a lone winter evening, when the frost 10 Has wrought a silence, from the stove there shrills The cricket's song, in warmth increasing ever, And seems to one in drowsiness half lost, The grasshopper's among the grassy hills.
