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LINES TO UNA, by                    
First Line: Lady of cool pacific gray
Last Line: Let them be proud!
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.


Lady of cool Pacific gray,
Yours is the dripping day.
By blood to you belong
Dew's silver silence and rain's silver song.
Reject not yours, I pray.

Take winds for gown, for cloak, take fogs;
Take orchis from the bogs
To deck your halo-braid,
And veil yourself in vapor overlaid
With lichens from damp logs.

Such take for wear, and these
For nothing save to please:
From under water, fins,
From under earth, moles' gloom-soft, sober skins,
And bark from birchen trees;

Breast feathers of the albatross,
Starred dandelion floss,
The backs of olive leaves,
The weathered fray from wattled cottage eaves
And shells of oyster gloss.

Take tidal homage, winter-loud,
The praiseful look from cloud
In gay or serious skies.
Because these find their color in your eyes,
Let them be proud!





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