Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROWESS, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER


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First Line: Let it be invisible
Last Line: "wonder, in a blue plush chair."
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


Let it be invisible,
We shall see and hear as well.

Let it hide in ways unknown,
We shall teach it to cut stone.

If it lives where planets reel,
We shall make it turn a wheel;

And call it from the plunging roar
Of cataracts, to close a door.

After us, let it be said,
"They taught the whirlwind to bake bread;

"Gave mute space a clacking tongue,
"Gave the smothering sea a lung,

"Made the mountain tie their shoes,
"The lightning walk by two and twos;

"And worshipped high above the square
"Wonder, in a blue plush chair."





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