Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STRUCTURE, by CAROLINE MAXWELL LEE


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First Line: Against the primrose twilight rise outspread
Last Line: Reveals the grace implicit in his kind.


Against the primrose twilight rise outspread
The lacy fans of unleafed winter trees;
I mark from trunk to outmost dusky thread
The structure, perfect as a symphony's.

Below the earth, as mirrored in a pool --
Reversed in stem and tendril-coils, that bear
The rising sap, life giving, strong and cool --
The roots repeat the structure of the air.

Soon fluttered curls and ruffles of young leaves
Will flute along each air-swept arc, to free
In opulence of summer's plumy sheaves
The splendor destined to the perfect tree;

As one who, strong of soul and great of mind,
Reveals the grace implicit in his kind.





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