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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SAND PLAINS OF NEW JERSEY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poet's Biography
First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past
Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main.
Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore
First Line: These sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past
Last Line: That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main.
Subject(s): Life; New Jersey; Sea; Seashore; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore
THESE sandy wastes are tributes to a mighty past,
The ancient times when man had yet not traversed earth:
The sea had rolled its waves upon an ocean floor
That now grows pines and moss and lowly shrubbery.
No signs but whitened sands betray the distant age,
The stormy deeps and plash of waves that ground the rocks
To sandy dust, waiting in sun and rain to grow
A covering for its nakedness and its barren soil.
How nature struggles here in tree and plant to show
Her fertile genius and enrich the eye with sheen
Of varied growth, extending her dominion there
O'er ravages of wind and sea, the thunder kings.
Then follows man, the paragon of animals,
With home and garden, twixt saving care and waste,
Half helps and half destroys the wilderness of life,
That won a splendid victory o'er ploughing main.
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