Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, KEARSARGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP


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First Line: Kearsarge, thou lonely sentinel
Last Line: The distant azure gates of god.
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Kearsarge (mountain), New Hampshire; Mythology


KEARSARGE, thou lonely sentinel,
That guardest far Atlantic shores,
Where old Apollo brightly casts
The silver sheen of placid main.

In thy sublime and lofty calm,
Thou guardest there the briny deep,
Where Neptune with his trident bold
Still rules the wastes of earth and sea.

Thou guardest, too, the western range
Of bolder mountains and the skies,
Whose glowing twilight nobly lumes
The distant azure gates of God.





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