Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE GARDEN IN THE SKIES, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON


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THE GARDEN IN THE SKIES, by                    
First Line: I see a garden in the skies
Last Line: From a flower bed in the skies!
Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Paradise


I see a garden in the skies,
Fresh with celestial showers—
Is it some mirage of paradise?
Or the spirit land of flowers?
Whate'er it be,
It seems to me
More beautiful than ours.

Above the purple hills of dawn
A giant sunflower peeps,
And when his yellow disk is gone
And the moon her voyage keeps,
She's a lily—
Pale and chilly,
On her azure lake she sleeps.

Yon burnished clouds are floral banks
On the grave of Yesterday—
See the sable nuns in broken ranks
File down the path to pray,
And strew the night
With petals white,
Which makes the "Milky Way"!

A comet is a big bouquet
Trailed headlong in a race;
Each star a white anemone
Emplanted in her place—
So shy and pale,
So fair and frail,
She gives the garden grace.

When through the clouds at evening's ebb,
I saw those twinkling eyes,
It used to seem a diamond web
Where sifted gold-dust lies,
But now it seems
That perfume streams
From a flower bed in the skies!





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