Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAST ECSTASY, by ALETHA CALDWELL CONNER


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First Line: I want to go to the hills of oklahoma
Last Line: In the hills of oklahoma!
Subject(s): Mountains; Oklahoma; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


I want to go to the hills of Oklahoma --
Where trailing mists of tender light
Melt in the violet shades of night --

I want to be in the hills of Oklahoma --
When robins start their annual flight
And Winter girds himself with might --

O, let me see the hills of Oklahoma
When a mocking bird in plaintive cry
Brings the mating call of a bob-white nigh!

My heart cries out for the hills of Oklahoma --
Where goldenrod in masses bright
Reflect their glow in sunset-light.

All nature sings in the hills of Oklahoma,
As crickets chirp within the grass
And humming locusts dip and pass --

O take me back to the hills of Oklahoma!
When I no more may share their mirth
Here, in the land that gave me birth --

O lay me deep, in the red, red earth
Where forever I'll stay
My dust making gay
The slope of a wood
At dawn of the day
In the hills of Oklahoma!





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