Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHITE FRINGED-ORCHIS, by CAROLINE HAZARD


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First Line: Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss
Last Line: The candles of the lord.
Subject(s): Earth; Love; Swamps; World; Bogs; Fens; Marshes


Low swampy ground, with spagnum moss,
Witch grass, and creeping pine;
A step across a tiny foss,
(The world is lost, it is but dross,)
Here, here is the Divine!

Cranberry vines have balls of green --
The sphere, the all in all --
Blueberries show metallic sheen,
(The silence spreads an altar screen,)
Upon my knees I fall.

Snow-white, mid feathers of a fern --
Scant shelter they afford --
Upright and pure, they wait their turn,
(O light, oh Love, to beam and burn,)
The candles of the Lord.





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