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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW JERSEY, by JAMES E. RICHARDSON
First Line: The white, strong sun, the stinging water-smells
Last Line: I set them down, -- misprized, beloved land!
Subject(s): New Jersey
First Line: The white, strong sun, the stinging water-smells
Last Line: I set them down, -- misprized, beloved land!
Subject(s): New Jersey
The white, strong sun, the stinging water-smells;
The odor of magnolias, drowsing-sweet;
The pipe of noonday frogs; the tweet-tweet-tweet
Of lesser birds, like mingling silver bells;
The hothouse air of dripping sphagnum-dells,
The crumbling roots beneath one's crushing feet;
The disappearing snake's tail; through the heat,
The crow's note overhead that scolds and yells;
The click of axes where tall cedars throng;
The wind that roars like some wild railway-train
Above the pines, yet spins to gnatlike song
Beside some sleeper's ear, the bleached, clean sand;
For your one sake, before these pass again,
I set them down, -- misprized, beloved land!
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