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PRAIRIE VOICES, by                    
First Line: Be these the burden of our runes
Last Line: When we essay our winged steeds.
Subject(s): Nature; Prairies; Plains


Be these the burden of our runes:
Sheer artistry of prairie moons.

The fabled Fleece, in golden grain;
Staccato music, made of rain.

The blithesome gurgle of the rills
That slip between the sunlit hills,

Where songsters on frail sapplings swing
To vocalize the Ides of Spring.

Warm, wooing sun, and cleansing wind—
Tried therapeutics of the mind.

The moving curtain of the rains
That, bit by bit, obscures the plains

Where grateful grasses sweetly raise
Their mute encomiums of praise ....

All Nature's store-house greets our needs,
When we essay our winged steeds.





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