Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MOUNTAIN LILAC, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON


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First Line: Upon the hills
Last Line: Upon the hills.
Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


UPON the hills,
Upon the little foothills,
Out there, beyond the pungent sage of the mesa,
A film of blue has shadowed the soft green
That followed the rains of spring.
And into the mountains,
Back behind the foothills,
The mist of fine, elusive blue is rising,
Even as smoke might rise from spreading fires
Long smouldering near the earth.

The golden sun pitched camp upon the hills,
After the long gray rains had washed them clean,
And where he wandered,
And where his fingers touched it,
The earth grown hot with love of his bright beauty,
Gave back this smoke
Soon to be broken by the flaring flame
Of mimulus and tarweed.
Soon through this living mist,
This dear blue smoke,
Will the sun-kindled summer break and burn
Upon the hills.





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