Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LEGENDA, by JAMES HARRISON


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First Line: This song stays
Last Line: Delight of air and light and breath.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Day; Legends; Memory; Night; Singing & Singers; Bedtime; Songs


This song stays.
No new one carries us, bears
us so high, more swiftly.
And it has no place,
it changes as we change
death drawn to silence
at noon or in still night,
who knows another, wishes one.

None wishes night,
but only one night, one day,
sun and dark at final rest.
River at spring crest,
sky clear blue,
forest at June greenness,
delight of eye in brain fully flowering,
delight of air and light and breath.





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