When the wild winds wring the withered leaves
From the nigh nude branches of the roadside trees.
And whirls them lie affrighted chicks before it’s blast
Across the fields and fences till at last.
They’re lost in the gray smoky haze that lurks
Along the fringe of yonder woods where the white trunks of the birch
Sway in the spectral silence swinging in the gloom.
Before the blasts that blight their summer bloom
When winds in the wintering woods wail [weirdly] April 11, 1928