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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLUFF, by LUCIUS KING FULLER
First Line: Oh giant form, so old, yet ever new
Last Line: The council fires of freedom on your height.
First Line: Oh giant form, so old, yet ever new
Last Line: The council fires of freedom on your height.
Oh giant form, so old, yet ever new,
Adamantine, immovable, and vast;
You hide the prairie's greenery from our view,
Leviathan of a dim, majestic past.
We wonder if your kind and race were born
Where raged, all glowing, Aetna's lava flames,
Or spouting tide-rips tuned the Triton's horn.
Perhaps you garbled both their destined games.
The wooded mane, along your warrior crest,
Seems earnest of that dimmed and far-off time
When beast and bird might find a welcome rest
Or bounteous table, spread where they might climb.
Valorous Sachem, lead us as we light
The Council Fires of Freedom on your height.
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