Where the Mares Have Fed

Where the mares have fed in high pastures

The grass is cropped smooth to the sod

Hung upon the slopes. The slant herbage of the clouds

Have fed their hunger, and nourished the stirring foals

Doubled in swollen bodies.

Longer is day upon the hills, tenderer the grasses,

Stronger the winds that toss uncurried manes

Above the ridge and hollow.

Higher upon the earth

And free when the foals are straining

Toward these green hills islanded with sky and birth.