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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
QUESTING, by SARAH DELLA ULMER
First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars
Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: The desert shares its loneliness with stars
Last Line: In mystery -- slip noiselessly away.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
The desert shares its loneliness with stars
That gleam above its head. The antiphon
Of ministered canticle the winds chant on,
But no discordant note its cadence mars.
The melody in soft cathedral bars,
Divinely sweet, floats out when day is gone,
And sallow worlds shine forth in pallor wan,
To perch like jeweled fires on evening's spars.
I long to go on soundless feet, to quest
Those paths that desert winds beat through the fields
Of swaying stars. And it may be some day
I shall -- without a word, intent to test
That realm, to plumb those depths the desert shields
In mystery -- slip noiselessly away.
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