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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DUST, by BLANCHE M. GARDNER
First Line: I wonder if the sun and moon
Last Line: Out on a dust-whipped plain!
Subject(s): Dust
First Line: I wonder if the sun and moon
Last Line: Out on a dust-whipped plain!
Subject(s): Dust
I wonder if the sun and moon
Will ever shine out bright?
The dust has blotted out the day.
It's all one long dark night.
The moving clouds are gorged with dust,
The water holes are gone.
Not one green thing sprouts from the earth,
And dust rolls on and on.
There are no birds to wake the dawn,
No rodents roam about,
And where the fields once waved and grew,
Bare roots and stones stand out.
Great mounds keep forming on the earth,
Just dead things lying there
Who were too weak to drift along.
Dust covers their despair.
O God, have mercy on what's left
And let it rain and rain,
Or we will also be bleak mounds,
Out on a dust-whipped plain!
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