What survived among the kine.
In the fenceless fields the panther
Crouched to spring upon his prey;
And the rattlesnake lay basking
Careless in the public way.
Where had stood the barn and stable,
And the garden with its bees;
Where the house, with peakèd gable,
Peeped through groves of locust-trees;
Where the children, newly risen,