Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LEVELS, by LENA HALL


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LEVELS, by                    
First Line: One can get used to levels, - he can see
Last Line: May wake no step along the even floor.
Subject(s): Life


One can get used to levels, -- he can see
On any side a wide horizon stare
With out an arching eyebrow anywhere
Over wide marshes crying for a tree;
And he can glide through any day's routine
With measured step, until a sudden view
Of undulating clouds against the blue
Features a hillside pasture, wide and clean.

One can get used to levels, -- if he must;
But when his first adventures all were made
With swift allowance for a changing grade.
And deadly horizontals held in trust, --
The accustomed knock upon his dreary door
May wake no step along the even floor.





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