Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WALL AND IVY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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WALL AND IVY, by                    
First Line: Root that partakes of stone
Last Line: With stone and ivy one.
Subject(s): Leaves; Nature; Poison Ivy


Root that partakes of stone
And stone that shares the leaf,
Let one who hastens by
Born to a cycle brief,
Become in ways his own,
Your fibre, slow to die.

In one clear moment let
The angry blood be still,
Sleep in the root's thick veins,
Draw from the wood its fill,
Pause in the stone, grow set
Where the gray leaf drinks the rains.

And let the harried mind
Forsaking dreams and haste,
Be quenched in stars and sun,
A thousand years slow-paced,
For an instant standing blind,
With stone and ivy one.





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