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QUATRAINS, by                    
First Line: The message / the north wind came and to the maples said
Last Line: "but risen!"" and let the rose-mouths lisp of spring!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett
Subject(s): Literary Form; Nature


THE MESSAGE
THE North wind came and to the Maples said,
"My soul takes pity on the Butterfly;
So do you, shrouded in her gold and red,
O Maples, warn her that she too must die."

LARGESS
Up to his mosque, lo, Time the Sultan passed
Between the beggar Months around the gate,
And in October's lap superbly cast
His golden largess and went in elate.

THE SILVER-BIRCH
I heard throughout the woods' seraglio
The Sultan Autumn's widows tell their woe;
And saw the Frost-King enter in his pride
And choose the Silver-Birch alone for bride.

ON JAPANESE PAPER
The while afar some ancient crows intone
Their incantations 'mid the marshes blight,
A spectre moon steals up the void alone
With but one star to prove that it is night.

THE ANGEL AT THE TOMB
Within his eyes the glory lingering clear
Dims all his vesture's snowy glistening;
Voice of the lily cry, "He is not here
But risen!" and let the rose-mouths lisp of Spring!





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