Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PRAIRIE VESPER, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON


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PRAIRIE VESPER, by                    
First Line: A doubting skeptic walked with me
Last Line: Is creed enough for me.
Subject(s): Paintings And Painters; Prairies; Plains


A doubting skeptic walked with me
Upon a prairie hill;
As twilight fell he talked with me,
I half believed him till
The burning sunset lit the west
With blazing glory spilled
From north to south, up to the crest—
The skeptic's tongue was stilled.

O Power that floods with painted light
The prairie galleries,
And sets between the day and night
Such canvases as these,
I'll hear no cant; nor shall I care
How many creeds there be;
To know One hung the sunset there
Is creed enough for me.





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