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NATIVITY by PHILIP H. CUMMINGS

First Line: THERE IS A WARM BROWNNESS
Last Line: OF MY NEW ENGLAND.
Subject(s): NEW ENGLAND;
There is a warm brownness
In the wide flat fields
With naked trees
And fences.
There is a gesture of abundance
In the stolid silos,
Large wood barns
And houses.
Yet these cannot supercede
The blue cold tops of hills
And steep ravines
Of my New England.



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