Hamlin Garland Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: September 14, 1860 - March 4, 1940
Birthday: September 14
Death: March 4
From the great trees the locusts cry In quavering ecstatic duo-a boy Shouts a wild call-a mourning dove In the blue distance sobs-the wind Wanders by, heavy with odors Of corn and wheat and melon vines; The trees tremble with delirious joy as the breeze Greets them, one by one-now the oak Now the great sycamore, now the elm.
source: Hamlin Garland (1961). “Boy Life on the Prairie”, p.178, U of Nebraska Press
topic: Summer, Distance, Boys, Duos, Melons, Delirious
