Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AGAIN, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER



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First Line: Again to be roaming in rapturous flight
Last Line: In the mid-flight of joy shoot me straight to the heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Flight; Hunting; Flying; Hunters


AGAIN to be roaming in rapturous flight
By swift-foaming torrents agleam in the light
While the snow on the rock wall above me is bright!

From north-wind and south-wind the landlord divine
Is mixing a cup of ethereal wine.
I drink and the soul of my youth becomes mine.

O breath of the mountains, delirious and rare,
Red roses that sway on your branches so fair,
Ye huts whose blue smoke eddies high in the air!—

The thick-woven cloud-veil that hovered so low
Sweeps back, the live blue is beginning to show.
How calmly yon eagle soars up through the glow!

And my heart which it bears in its feathery breast,
With a sense of that heavenly region possessed,
Now trembles with gladness like one of the blest.

Bold hunter, you too I can plainly descry,
Round the gray cliffs your gray form is clambering sly,
You raise your bright barrel and point toward the sky.

Descend to the valley? How sore were the smart.
No, hunter, take aim with the best of thy art,
In the mid-flight of joy shoot me straight to the heart.





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