Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MOMENTS OF BEAUTY, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS


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THE MOMENTS OF BEAUTY, by                    
First Line: Up through the mud and gravel beauty climbs
Last Line: Halts us, long after, with remembering.
Subject(s): Beauty


Up through the mud and gravel Beauty climbs
To light plain things of earth in sun and wet,
Till what we must have passed a thousand times
We some day see, and never can forget!
Strange how the thousand times fade out at last
And leave the one time when our eyes could see --
How Beauty with a touch rubs out the Past,
And sets a new mark up for memory.
A boulder beautiful beyond belief,
Witch-hazel blossoms bitten by the cold,
Touched with a sudden beauty, bright and brief,
Make pictures that we see till we are old;
Ay, what has once been a transfigured thing
Halts us, long after, with remembering.





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