Muse and Mint

Chapter 69: HUMOR

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About This Book

A varied collection of short lyrical poems that observes nature and rural life, using seasonal imagery—sap, snow, rivers, cherries—and simple domestic scenes to reflect on change, beauty, and small joys. Sections shift between fireside recollections, sentimental and philosophical meditations, homiletic and religious pieces, and light humor, blending devotional songlike verses with moral aphorisms and affectionate memory. The voice moves between wistful and buoyant moods, finding consolation and ethical insight in commonplace experiences, while concise stanzas and vivid images emphasize mood and moral reflection rather than a continuous narrative.

HUMOR

SAP’S A-BILIN’

Out in the country where they tap

The maple-trees in Spring,

There’s something doin’ on the map

When March is on the wing.

The bar’ls and buckets overrun,

The busy farmer’s smilin’,

The cracklin’ fire helps the fun;

For sap’s a-bilin’.

Out in the country where they all

Have lived a hundred years

And heard the go-to-meetin’ call

As Sunday storms or clears,

Thermometer’s a-risin’ when

For trouble folks are spilin’;

Till some one pokes the kettle—then

The sap’s a-bilin’.

Just hold a bit—don’t let it burn

By bein’ too intense!

The man who biles has first to learn

A leetle common sense.

It’s sugar that we’re bilin’, mind,

Not human nature rilin’;

So jest go back to sweetness kind

When sap’s a-bilin’!