Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SILENT PLACES, by HAROLD M. HILDRETH


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THE SILENT PLACES, by                    
First Line: I have come back from the mountains
Last Line: And speak once more with my god.
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


I have come back from the mountains,
And the beauty of forest ways,
From the pine-trail winding at sunset
To the crags in the purple haze.

I have come back from the prairies,
And the free-born winds of the west,
Where my soul reached out to heaven,
And found in the starlight rest.

I have come back to the city,
With its clang and its screech and its din;
Its halls are filled with madness,
And its eyes are blind with sin.

I think of the peaks white-crested,
And the sage on the sweeping plain,
And the vastness, and the silence,
And the whisper of God again.

I will go back to my mountains,
Back to the prairies I've trod;
Some day I shall stand in that silence
And speak once more with my God.





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