Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IN CITIES, by CALE YOUNG RICE


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First Line: In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke
Last Line: Delights deeper than any a city divines.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cities; Hearts; Memory; Trees; Urban Life


In cities you watch the way of wind with smoke
And if you are country-born you think of trees
Tossing their boughs, and doubt if factories
Should ever be fed forests of ash and oak.
You watch the way of rain, making a fog
Of soot that sinks down from the chimney tops,
And you think of mist over a meadow bog,
And your heart remembering beauty almost stops.

There is a little vale I once lived in,
Just a white house or two, a store and a steeple,
A street and a few lamp posts, where a road had been,
And nothing so very wonderful as to people.
But the blackbirds for uncounted years have returned
To nest within the green night of its pines,
And there isn't a heart for miles 'round but has learned
Delights deeper than any a city divines.





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