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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WESTERN WORLD, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Late, from this western shore, that morning.
First Line: Late, from this western shore, that morning.
Late, from this western shore, that morning chased
The deep and ancient night, that threw its shroud
O'er the green land of groves, the beautiful waste,
Nurse of full streams, and lifter-up of proud
Sky-mingling mountains that o'erlook the cloud.
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Erewhile, where yon gay spires their brightness rear,
Trees waved, and the brown hunter's shouts were loud
Amid the forest; and the bounding deer
Fled at the glancing plume, and the gaunt wolf yelled near
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