Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ALUPKA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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First Line: Cross but this rocky height, and lo!
Last Line: Alupka, pride of the cliff and wave!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Crimean Coast And Alupka
Subject(s): Russia; Soviet Union; Russians


CROSS but this rocky height, and lo!
A valley rare as Rasselas
Found in the Abyssinian pass,
With warmth and beauty all aglow!
Where for Tartar mosque and royal villa
Is many a shining porphyry pillar,
With marbles for altar and floor and stair
Veined with vermilion or amber fair;
And fountains fed by the rills that fall
Cool and clear from the mountain wall.
Where the olive and orange and nectarine
Ripen the seaside gardens in,
And the winds are sweet as the breeze that sighs
Over the meadows of Paradise! --
Yea, and the blessed there might crave
Alupka, pride of the cliff and wave!





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