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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PRAIRIE TOWN, by HELEN HOOVEN SANTMYER
First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town
Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north.
Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains
First Line: Lovers of beauty laugh at this gray town
Last Line: Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed north.
Subject(s): Prairies; Towns; Wellesley College; Plains
LOVERS of beauty laugh at this gray town,
Where dust lies thick on ragged curb-side trees,
Where compass-needle streets lead up and down
And lose themselves in empty prairie seas.
Here is no winding scented lane, no hill
Crowned with a steepled church, no garden wall
Of old gray stone, where lilacs bloom and fill
The air with fragrance when the May rains fall.
But here is the unsoftened majesty
Of the wide earth where all the wide streets end,
And from the dusty corner one may see
The full moon rise, and flaming sun descend.
The long main street, whence farmers' teams go forth
Lies like an old sea-road, star-pointed North.
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