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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GARDENS AT DEERING, by KATHRYN DYE
First Line: So cool, so calm, these graceful lanes of grass
Last Line: Resplendent in the plainest image cast.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
First Line: So cool, so calm, these graceful lanes of grass
Last Line: Resplendent in the plainest image cast.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening
So cool, so calm, these graceful lanes of grass.
No stir but where the fluted ivy falls
In ruffled petticoats from granite walls
And trembles soft when gypsy breezes pass.
No keeper taught these tender trees to mass
In dark wet shadow where the earthworm crawls
And furry lichens spread their molded shawls,
And yet, what canopy can this surpass?
Before I knew this place of quiet green
I thought that beauty blew a scarlet blast
Upon a golden trumpet; now, at last,
I know that beauty often comes unseen
And stands close by, unheralded and mean --
Resplendent in the plainest image cast.
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