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CRYSTAL CARAVANS UNTO THE PURPLE PALISADES, by                    
First Line: Unto the purple palisades that stand
Last Line: Of our far land of dreams.
Subject(s): Caravans; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape


Unto the purple palisades that stand
Majestic sentinels of those dim lands
That lie beyond the farthest silver rim
Of our far land of dreams, across the silver sands
Move crystal caravans divinely laden
With gauzy merchandise of stuff celestial
Not sold in any mart known to gray mortals,
But caught at random in the hands of rapture
From the gay heaped-up stuff of life's bazaars:
Love's pale cool buds that never flowered in passion
But shed the deathless perfume of devotion;
Bright cages frail as gilded spider's web
Where jewelled birds in song ecstatic flutter;
Slim emerald trees ablaze with flashing prisms
And gold with apples of Hesperides;
Toy boats spice-laden, sailing turquoise rivers
That wind thru painted landscapes of new Edens.
And over all, hope's gorgeous banners waving.
Thus move the crystal caravans divinely laden
With gauzy merchandise of stuff celestial,
Unto the purple palisades that stand
Majestic sentinels of those dim lands
That lie beyond the farthest silver rim
Of our far land of dreams.





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