Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, IDAHO JEWELS, by KENNETH B. PLATT


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IDAHO JEWELS, by                    
First Line: Grass is not green, I tell you, until you've seen
Last Line: The wonder of your fields of living green.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


Grass is not green, I tell you, until you've seen
The green of new alfalfa flanked by sage:
Unnumbered years of gray -- then, thrust between
A verdant field! It cuts the desert age
As dawn's bright saber shafts cut day from night,
And sets the shadows of the past to flight.

Oh, land of gray, immeasurable years;
Oh, land now verdant in the rising sun;
Far land that knew the dreams of pioneers
And yielded treasure in the dreams they won --
They only know your jewels who have seen
The wonder of your fields of living green.





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