Friday, December 30, 2011

The Cow (Robert Louis Stevenson)









The friendly cow allred and white,
I love with all my heart:
She gives me cream with all her might,
To eat with apple-tart.


She wanders lowing here and there,
And yet she cannot stray,
All in the pleasant open air,
The pleasant light of day;

And blown by all thewinds that pass
And wet with all the showers,
She walks among the meadow grass
And eats the meadow flowers.








NOTES:


1. From AChild's Garden of Verses (1885)


2. Most days I drive from Berwyn toBryn Mawr along Darby-Paoli, turning left on Conestoga Road.  On eitherside spread two large cow pastures, which are home to a single herd ofbeautiful black cows.  The cows are either in one pasture or the other --never in both simultaneously.  We have never been able to figure out howthey cross the road and no one has ever been able to explain this phenomenon tous.  Either people are totally uninterested, they are all participating ina conspiracy against my family or, as I actually believe, these are magicalcows.  


3.  Link: ShirleyTemple recites The Cow in Dora's Dunking Donuts (1933)


4.  Paintingsby Thomas Hewes Hinkley, 1869, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford,Pennsylvania.  


5.  Link: The Cow (PaulBowles)




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