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OLIVE by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER

Poet Analysis

First Line: DOVE-BORNE SYMBOL, OLIVE BOUGH
Last Line: DELUGE AND GETHSEMANE.
Dove-borne symbol, olive bough;
Dove-hued sign from God to men,
As if still the dove and thou
Kept companionship as then.

Dove-hued, holy branch of peace,
Antique, all-enduring tree;
Deluge and the floods surcease --
Deluge and Gethsemane.



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