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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CLOISTERED DAWN, by BERT MOREHOUSE
First Line: I saw birch trees against a winter dawn
Last Line: A robin's nest as chalice to the sun.
Subject(s): Birch Trees
First Line: I saw birch trees against a winter dawn
Last Line: A robin's nest as chalice to the sun.
Subject(s): Birch Trees
I saw birch trees against a winter dawn --
A rain-wet dawn suffusing all the east --
White trees like virgins standing there upon
A vestal hill in silence, while the priest
Of day lit golden candles in the sky,
And woodland incense burned where frost had run...
In slender poise they offered up on high
A robin's nest as chalice to the sun.
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