Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ANNUNCIATION, by GEORGES DUHAMEL



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ANNUNCIATION, by                    
First Line: From the tall mountain's brow
Last Line: And the man that it will crush.
Subject(s): Hearts; Mountains; Trees; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


FROM the tall mountain's brow
A broken mass of rock
Rolls down the wrinkles of the deep ravine
As though it were a heavy tear of granite.
If it seems to stop for a space
It is but to roll on with a fiercer leap;
A stag set free will not more swiftly reach its cave.
It bounds forth mightily
And plucks out at their very roots
The pines and juniper trees.

Also the wood-cutters toiling upon the slope
Feel a disquietude upon their backs;
And terror freezes their entrails,
While this scourge approaches
Which no man has yet seen.

But I among the heather sunk in deepest peace
Have a heart as calm as is a hooded falcon's,
My skin is clear with blood that nothing can affright:
For I know the mountain and the road of avalanches,
And that the stone may not fall where I am.

But I can point out far below
The trees that it will fell
And the man that it will crush.





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