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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: CAROLINA, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: That fair young land which gave me birth is dead!
Last Line: Lost in dim shadows of the realm of ghosts!
Subject(s): South Carolina
First Line: That fair young land which gave me birth is dead!
Last Line: Lost in dim shadows of the realm of ghosts!
Subject(s): South Carolina
THAT fair young land which gave me birth is dead!
Lost as a fallen star that quivering dies
Down the pale pathway of autumnal skies,
A vague faint radiance flickering where it fled;
All she hath wrought, all she hath planned or said,
Her golden eloquence, her high emprise
Wrecked, on the languid shore of Lethe lies,
While cold Oblivion veils her piteous head:
O mother! loved and loveliest! debonair
As some brave queen of antique chivalries.
Thy beauty's blasted like thy desolate coasts; --
Where now thy lustrous form, thy shining hair?
Where thy bright presence, thine imperial eyes?
Lost in dim shadows of the realm of Ghosts!
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