Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOOSIL'AUK, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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MOOSIL'AUK, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Moosil'auk! Mountain sagamore! Thy brow
Last Line: Lone peak! What realms are thine, above, below!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Mountains; New Hampshire; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


MOOSIL'AUK! mountain sagamore! thy brow
The wide hill-splendor circles. Not a peer,
Among New Hampshire's lordly heights that fear
Nor summer's bolt nor winter's blast, hast thou
For grand horizons. Lo, to westward now
Towers Whiteface over Killington; and clear,
To north, Mount Royal cleaves the blue; while near,
Franconia's, Conway's peaks the east endow
With glory, round great Washington whose cone
Of sunset shade, athwart his valleys thrown,
Darkens and stills a hundred miles of Maine!
To south the bright Lake smiles, and rivers flow
Through elm-fringed meadows to the ocean plain —
Lone peak! what realms are thine, above, below!





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