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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROYAL POINCIANA, by A. LOCKE MAUREAU
First Line: Moses' bush, when travellers wend their way
Last Line: From dire corruption, as the scriptures say.
Subject(s): Poincianas
First Line: Moses' bush, when travellers wend their way
Last Line: From dire corruption, as the scriptures say.
Subject(s): Poincianas
Moses' Bush, when travellers wend their way
Southward, where are your scarlet blossoms, pray?
The heat has seared them, and a norther raped
The tender green with which you once were draped.
Then each pod jangles rough, ungainly, black,
Like a Cossack's scabbard on his courser's back.
But when it's May again and leaflets hide
Your naked boughs, then flames your crimson pride
Far Madagascar's tree of fire, you glow
In reborn beauty, and to us you show
How we shall rise again on Judgment Day
From dire corruption, as the Scriptures say.
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