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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PASSAIC RIVER AT PATERSON, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING
First Line: God made for beauty myriad souls and streams
Last Line: In the still twilights we have mirrored stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers
First Line: God made for beauty myriad souls and streams
Last Line: In the still twilights we have mirrored stars!
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Rivers
God made for Beauty myriad souls and streams
That know defeat, and in their tragedy
Carry but soil and burden to the sea,
Hiding their urge, their meaning, and their dreams.
I, and this River! Oftentimes it seems
We must forget the willows at our edge,
The arch of sky, and many a lyric ledge
Whereon the gold of April sunlight gleams;
Driven and weary, bridged for alien ways,
Must be too bitter, with our glory gone,
To feel the piercing sweetness of the dawn
Or any loveliness of sunset-haze . . .
Yet, whelmed by smudge and dye and rusty bars,
In the still twilights we have mirrored stars!
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