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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN A MOUNTAIN PASTURE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Green bowl where heaven drinks and cools the cheek
Last Line: Buddha, or jesus, ghandi, or my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
First Line: Green bowl where heaven drinks and cools the cheek
Last Line: Buddha, or jesus, ghandi, or my friend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding
Green bowl where heaven drinks and cools the cheek
Of watchfulness. White, wading blossoms trim
The grassy wave, up-rambling to the brim
In swaying liesure. Oak and chestnut streak
The crest-line with their young, that tip-toe meek
And listen upward, reaching limb to limb
Like children in a ring. What pagan hymn
Is ended, and what god about to speak?
No god. This is a human shrine, too warm
For chill of deity. The rooflesss air
Is like a crystal where I see a form
Nameless as man; or named, what do I care
If in his world-old eyes all hate hath end?
Buddha, or Jesus, Ghandi, or my friend.
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