Son of Nature, copper-skinned and stalwart, environed by cactus-covered hills, your altar is no costly thing of wood and shining brass, starred by burning candles. Your altar is a rock, rain-stained, frost-mottled, ages old, resting on an arid hillside. Wild shrub and desert flowers are your costly broideries; tall-stemmed yuccas reaching skyward are your candles; while bee-balm, aconite and juniper distill incense for your devotions. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNETS ATTEMPTED IN THE MANNER OF CONTEMPORARY WRITERS: 2 by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SONGS OF NIGHT TO MORNING: 2. AND YET by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) NIGHT WATCHERS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET TO CHILDREN: 2. BRAGGARTS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET HIS NAME WAS KEKO by THEODORE BRIDGMAN LYNTON VERSES: 3 by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |