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MORNING by ROSALIE D. DAVIS

First Line: WOULD YOU BEHOLD BEAUTY WONDROUS AND BRIGHT?
Last Line: OF DECKING THE BRIER AND THE THORN.
Subject(s): MORNING;
Would you behold beauty wondrous and bright?
Go forth when the morning appears
Draped in a gorgeous sunshiny robe
Of finest of summery sheers.

Would you be dazzled by splendor sublime?
Then go before day is too old,
Out where the gentians are garbed in their best
And leaves have donned purple and gold.

Would you see gems iridescent and rare?
Arise on a clear frosty morn;
Go where the sleet king has finished his task
Of decking the brier and the thorn.



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