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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMAGE, by ALICE H. MERTZ
First Line: The buttonwoods stand like shriven penitents
Last Line: And healing green will shroud and over and beautify.
Subject(s): Night; Spring; Bedtime
First Line: The buttonwoods stand like shriven penitents
Last Line: And healing green will shroud and over and beautify.
Subject(s): Night; Spring; Bedtime
The buttonwoods stand like shriven penitents
In sack cloth and ash,
Scarred by the wind's sharp flagellation,
Buffeted -- broken.
On dim, misty nights
The white limbs startle, grotesque and ghostly.
Hidden with spring is absolution,
And healing green will shroud and over and beautify.
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