Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MOUNTAIN MOMENT, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING


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First Line: Out across the morning
Last Line: Birches in the dawn!
Subject(s): Birch Trees; Eyes; Mountains; Nature; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


Out across the morning
The air lies blue and silver
Over curving valleys,
Cupping seas of mist.
Day comes bearing banners
Over Mount Ascutney.
All the trees are music-reeds
To whispers of the wind.

Wet leaves of the birches
Wink and shimmer, framing
Half a thousand Danaes
In a rain of gold;
Half a thousand birch trunks,
Swaying maiden-slender
Down a curving mountainside
That surges like a wave.

Look! -- for it is fleeting.
Such a moment settles
For a moment only,
And is quick to die.
Eyes, be bright for beauty;
Busy brain, remember
Shimmering of silver rain --
Birches in the dawn!





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