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GOLDEN AUGUST IN DAKOTA, by                    
First Line: The road up to high skylines
Last Line: With shining, blessed hands.
Subject(s): South Dakota


The road up to high skylines
Is a jocund trail to me,
When August hills curve, gold on blue,
In harvest ecstasy.
For, when I reach the skyline—
Space is here and far horizons,
Swing of blue and valiant sun;
Space is here and color—color!

Arcs of tessellated hills,
Green and gold, that slip like music
Down to where the river stills
Its bright rhythm in the willows
Broidering the lusty green
Of great cornfields which the breezes
Ruffle to a shimmering sheen.
Space is here and a swift rapture,
Peace with vibrant jubilee,
As the rows and swirls of grain shocks
And great straw buttes' majesty
Etch in gold, on golden stubble,
Summer's rich fecundity.

So the road up to high skylines
Chants life's radiant litany,
The mystery of eucharist
To toil's vast antiphony;
For, on this sunsweet hillcrest,
The Sacred Presence stands
And breaks for men their daily bread
With shining, blessed hands.





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