Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DUSTER, by GEORGIA MOORE EBERLING


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THE DUSTER, by                    
First Line: On all the plains and hills deep shadows lie
Last Line: Cannot replace the grass -- now so long dead.


On all the plains and hills deep shadows lie,
The sun shines faintly through a mask of gray,
Then sullenly, he dims his last faint ray
As clouds of dust obscure the troubled sky.
Before the hurtling wind the bleached weeds fly
Across vast, barren plains, where once there lay
A green and fragrant carpet, but today
We see the plowed sod writhe, hear the gale's cry!

Lost Red Man, you were wiser far than we,
The Pale-face breed who ploughed and sowed the plains
On which the deer and buffalo once fed.
Where once the shielding grass swayed, tired eyes see
The gashed fields bleeding dust, and healing rains
Cannot replace the grass -- now so long dead.





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