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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
STAIRWAYS, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER
First Line: Massive and grand are those old houses know
Last Line: But stagger blindly down them at the last!
Subject(s): Stairs
First Line: Massive and grand are those old houses know
Last Line: But stagger blindly down them at the last!
Subject(s): Stairs
Massive and grand are those old houses know,
Whose rails, too high for children's hands to reach,
Lend yet the ready help of friends to each
In age, to ease his hard ascent and slow.
Like brooks', their broad mahogany's soft flow;
Like that of rivers the proud sweep of them,
Holy because they knew the garments' hem
Of some we loved and lost in Long Ago....
Ah, God! what is to soothe us -- now our tears
Are softly fall'n and Laughter lets no more
Her silver lyric float from floor to floor --
Who climb these silent stairways with the years
For mute companions, and, when those have passed,
But stagger blindly down them at the last!
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THE BLUE STAIRS by BARBARA GUEST
THE STWONEN STEPS by WILLIAM BARNES
MEETING HALFWAY by FAIRFAX DOWNEY
WHITEHALL STAIRS by AARON HILL
THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
AFTERWARDS by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER