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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MEN WORSHIP ME, by VELONA PILCHER
First Line: I am the stark and silent pine
Last Line: Men worship me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness
First Line: I am the stark and silent pine
Last Line: Men worship me.
Subject(s): Solitude; Strength; Worship; Loneliness
I AM the stark and silent Pine.
I stand as straight as the bow string.
I stand as tall as the arrow flight.
Men worship me because I never bend.
I stand alone and self-sufficient.
Eucalypti wail around me.
Eucalypti toss hither and thither below my summit.
They shiver to the call of the storm.
They quiver to the sigh of the wind.
They glimmer to the waning of the moon.
I alone remain untouched.
I look ever upward.
I am impregnable.
I am eviable.
Men worship me.
Men are wont to worship that which they would not be.
In the cold of the night I am lonely.
Beasts cower from me because I make no moan.
Birds flee me because I never sway.
I stand alone and self-sufficient.
The storm-drops speed to the ground from the starkness of my branches.
The wind whistles harshly against my stolidity.
There is naught for the waning moon to linger on.
I alone remain untouched.
I would mingle with the breathing eucalypti at my feet.
But I may never bend.
I would see the brown of the sod.
But I may look but upward.
I am the stark and silent Pine.
Men worship me.
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