Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONG: 1, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH


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SONG: 1, by                    
First Line: Dip your hands in the mountain water
Last Line: Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!
Subject(s): Hands; Lakes; Mountains; Singing & Singers; Pools; Ponds; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Songs


Dip your hands in the mountain water
To grasp a star -- and what do you hold?
Fill your arms with bloom in upland pastures,
And still the hillside is blue and gold.

Cup your hand for the pool's deep blueness --
A cool touch answers, the blue eludes
The eager grasp of the clumsy fingers,
Each one grotesque where it intrudes.

So why should words reach down and capture
Within my heart the love that is there
Like the star in the brook, like bloom on the hillside,
Like blue in the pool that makes it fair!





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