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August 16, 2020  

Dewdrops
Myra Viola Wilds

Watch the dewdrops in the morning,
   Shake their little diamond heads,
Sparkling, flashing, ever moving,
   From their silent little beds.

See the grass! Each blade is brightened,
   Roots are strengthened by their stay;
Like the dewdrops, let us scatter
   Gems of love along the way.

This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on August 16, 2020, by the Academy of American Poets.

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“Dewdrops” originally appeared in Thoughts of Idle Hours (National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915).
Myra Viola Wilds was born in Kentucky. She authored the poetry collection Thoughts of Idle Hours (National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915), in her own hand after losing her eyesight due to overwork as a dressmaker. 

Thoughts of Idle Hours 
(National Baptist Publishing Board, 1915)

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