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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WISDOM, by DANIEL WHITEHEAD HICKY Poet's Biography
First Line: I say that I am wise. Yet dead leaves know
Last Line: I tremble at the ignorance of man!
Subject(s): Wisdom
First Line: I say that I am wise. Yet dead leaves know
Last Line: I tremble at the ignorance of man!
Subject(s): Wisdom
I say that I am wise. Yet dead leaves know
More secrets than my heart can ever guess.
I stand before a crocus' loveliness,
A sword of fire thrust upward in the snow,
And I can never say what embers glow
Beneath this frozen earth. I must confess
A child could stand here with but little less
Of knowledge at the seasons' ebb and flow.
This barren hill holds fast dark sleeping seeds
Whose flame and fragrance soon shall still the blood;
Yet wise in words and ways of men, and creeds,
I cannot know one purple twilight's plan.
Unraveling the crimson of one bud,
I tremble at the ignorance of man!
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