William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920.

Crickets at Dawn

ALL night the crickets chirp,

Like little stars of twinkling sound

In the dark silence.

They sparkle through the summer stillness

With a crisp rhythm:

They lift the shadows on their tiny voices.

But at the shining note of birds that wake,

Flashing from tree to tree till all the wood is lit—

O golden coloratura of dawn!—

The cricket-stars fade slowly,

One by one.

Poetry, A Magazine of Verse