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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RENAISSANCE, by ELISABETH KUSKULIS
First Line: The sun moves northward, in its flaming track
Last Line: The ancient meaning of the nascent spring.
First Line: The sun moves northward, in its flaming track
Last Line: The ancient meaning of the nascent spring.
The Sun moves northward, in its flaming track
A cosmos follows; planets at that call,
Wake to new wanderings and fling the pall
Of gray inertia from the zodiac.
The gravid earth by diastolic wrack
Is torn in birth -- the holiest of all
Life's miracles. Each atom feels the thrall
Of being, cleaving from the cryptic black.
Stars, chastely white, know that eternal quest,
Earth answers its primeval uttering;
Hills change from monks to gypsies, gayly drest,
And valleys bloom with many a mating nest;
While lovers learn, to larks' mad caroling,
The ancient meaning of the nascent Spring.
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