Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SILVER CREEK FALLS, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON


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SILVER CREEK FALLS, by                    
First Line: With a voice of many thunders
Last Line: Silver creek, sing on for me!
Subject(s): Brooks; Waterfalls; Streams; Creeks


With a voice of many thunders
Like the roaring of the sea,
Queen amidst the Cascade wonders,
Silver Falls, I sing for thee!

Through the black basaltic columns
Guarded by the bristling hills,
Plunges now the gathered tumult
Of a thousand rushing rills.

In the torrid sun of summer,
Arched with rainbows all aglow,
Pours the frantic, foaming river
To the caldron down below.

I have slept beside your torrent,
I have sported in your spray,
I have breathed the balmy balsam
Of your pines at break of day.

Dizzy heights a bed of blossom!
Rugged rocks with mosses rare,
Decked with nature's lingerie—
Trailing tress of maidenhair.

Hark! a quartet in the distance
Blend their voices with your own,
Are they muses long imprisoned
Near the queen of beauty's throne?

Or did Neptune, god of waters,
And the Queen of Thunders wed?
Sprung these five Titanic daughters
From such wild Cascadian bed?

Tell me not of old Niagara,
Or the cataract Ladore,
Till you've seen this group of grandeur
Lying almost at your door.

Wild the leap of old Multnomah,
Sweet the Falls of Bridal Veil,
But this Garden of the Graces
Gathers all within its pale.

With a voice of many thunders
Like the roaring of the sea,
Queen amid the magic wonders—
Silver Creek, sing on for me!





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