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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OUR MOON'S AN ATTIC USED FOR STORAGE SPACE, by DAWSON POWELL
First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space
Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians
First Line: Our moon's an attic used as storage space
Last Line: From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
Subject(s): Attics; History; Moon; Historians
Our moon's an attic used as storage space
For trinkets, time-worn fancies, loves, and such;
Where rents, to dreamers, cost not overmuch
And thoughts, like mice, are free to romp and race.
From star-dust peaks philosphers can face
Earth-life's perplexities, beyond the clutch
Of preachers praising each his patent crutch
From temple doors about the market place.
And poets, torn from beauty in the whirl
Of dervish-maddened, scrambling life of men,
Can view the earth -- a gossamer-draped girl
Whose beauty serves at memory's altar when
We part; we earth-bound souls who must return
From lunar shores when dawn's mist curtains burn.
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