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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOST WORLD, by JESSIE M. DOWLIN
First Line: Throughout the thicket there are half-seen ruts
Last Line: God grant worn souls your rediscovering!
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Throughout the thicket there are half-seen ruts
Last Line: God grant worn souls your rediscovering!
Subject(s): Sonnet (as Literary Form)
Throughout the thicket there are half-seen ruts
Where oxcart wheels once grooved the forest loam,
And here are basic walls whereon a home
Stood cherished by ancestral butternuts;
Along that knolltop, where a pine growth cuts
The skyline with its dark and serrate dome,
That late corn tasseled, and the buckwheat foam
Was flung where now are transient mushroom huts.
This clearing held content apart from greed,
For willing earth gave rich return for toil;
Man's care was for the fundamental thing --
He felt full blessed who gained but daily need.
Oh, lost world sleeping in this fertile soil,
God grant worn souls your rediscovering!
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