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WHEAT ELEVATORS (MINNESOTA), by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Castles, or titans' houses, or huge fanes
Last Line: Or joseph stored egyptian corn away.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


CASTLES, or Titans' houses, or huge fanes
Of ancient gods that yet compel men's fear—
What powers, what pomps, do these betoken here
Looming aloft upon the plough-seamed plains?
Souls of ripe seasons, spirits of sweet rains,
Flock hither; and the sinewy, yellow year
Heaps their high chambers with Pactolian gear
More precious than those golden Lydian grains.
Nor fortresses, nor demi-gods' abodes,
These are upraised to well-feared deities
Whose power is iron, and whose splendid sway
Is undisputed now as when great Rhodes,
And Tyre, and Carthage, flourished serving these,
Or Joseph stored Egyptian corn away.





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