Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PROMETHEUS IN JERSEY, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON


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PROMETHEUS IN JERSEY, by                    
First Line: The early winter dusk comes down
Last Line: A thousand spears of friendliness!
Subject(s): New Jersey; Prometheus


The early winter dusk comes down
With chilling rain and whimpering gust,
And this that was a friendly town
Is changed to shadows and distrust.
What though behind the pines and oaks
Wait hearts and hearths that conquer gloom?
The trees within their misty cloaks
Seem graybeards prophesying doom!

Yet suddenly a yellow light
Goes dancing through the drip and haze
As if a star had left its height
To free these night-beleaguered ways!
And see how many a golden lamp
From windows lost in dusk and dream
Sends forth across the murk and damp
Its answer to the rallying gleam!

Say not: "Prometheus is bound!"
But ask this youth of Tuscan name
Who bears his torch upon its round
From what far sun he stole his flame!
For though no god in him you mark
He is of Titan blood no less
Who hurls against the hostile dark
A thousand spears of friendliness!





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