Across
- 3. Where the robins perch to whistle their fiery songs.
- 5. Where frogs provide part of the nighttime chorus.
- 6. Trees described as white and trembling in the night air.
- 8. The quality of sound the swallows make, almost as if it shines.
- 9. What the robins do while wearing their “feathery fire.”
- 10. What carries the fresh smell after the rains come.
Down
- 1. The huge event the poem says nature won’t acknowledge at all.
- 2. What mankind might do, unnoticed by birds or trees.
- 4. The kind of rains that begin the poem, signaling nature’s calming presence.
- 7. The bright-breasted birds performing their whimsical songs.
- 8. She “wakes at dawn” in the poem and would barely notice if humans vanished.