Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOSEMITE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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YOSEMITE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Most glorious temple! Open flung
Last Line: And seraph-tongued are earth and air!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Nature - Religious Aspects; Yosemite Valley And National Park


MOST glorious Temple! open flung
Are all thy sculptured doors;
Thy mellow chimes are hourly rung,
Thy Jubilates ceaseless-sung,
And o'er thy grassy floors
Reverent I walk, and let my prayers
Waft heavenward with the morning airs.

Thy choirs are streams that, thundering, leap
The mountain barriers down;
The winds that wail by gorge and steep;
The brooks through sunny meads that sweep
Or foam where cañons frown;
And crags, and groves by crystal falls,
Thy altars and confessionals.

Perpetual masses here intone;
Uncounted censers swing;
A psalm on every breeze is blown;
The echoing peaks from throne to throne
Greet the indwelling King; —
The Lord, the Lord is everywhere,
And seraph-tongued are earth and air!





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