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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAIRIE SKY, by MUNA LEE Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes for days one can forget the sky
Last Line: Or sunset blazing for ten thousand miles!
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
First Line: Sometimes for days one can forget the sky
Last Line: Or sunset blazing for ten thousand miles!
Alternate Author Name(s): Munoz Matin, Luis, Mrs.; Munoz Matin, Muna Lee
Subject(s): Evening; Sunset; Twilight
Sometimes for days one can forget the sky
That God-like, indifferent, never fails to bless
With unflawed beauty our huddled littleness.
One can forget -- the meddling breeze goes by
Piling vacant lots with waste to catch the eye;
Or mud, or dust, or merely the heat that shows
In quivering air, can make the senses close
To everything that is far or vast or high.
Then a scrap, a bird, the casual glance beguiles
Up, up, up! -- till once more, swiftly, surely,
The clean, keen blade of ecstasy stabs purely:
Oh, glorious blue across which clouds are blowing,
Or lucent gray the far rain-tempests showing,
Or sunset blazing for ten thousand miles!
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