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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN AND PRAIRIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains
First Line: Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
Last Line: And prairies too!
Subject(s): Homesickness; Mountains; New England; Prairies; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains
Where narrow little valleys snugly lie
In quietness,
Where green New England mountains touch the sky
With soft caress,
There, chafing in a narrow round of toil,
Rock-hard of face,
A gloomy farmer longs for prairie soil
And prairie space.
Where all the world is empty of a tree
To fleck the sky,
Where far and far as weary sight may see
The levels lie,
There, languishing beneath the wheeling sun, --
So vast, so still, --
An exiled woman longs for one -- just one --
New England hill.
Two prayers unanswered! Where exchange of ills
Were rose for rue;
And that is why I think that heaven has hills,
And prairies too!
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