Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WILD GEESE GO OVER, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY



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First Line: Along dim lanes lit only by the stars
Last Line: They gently drop to rest at break of day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Wings


Along dim lanes lit only by the stars
These catapults of nature volley on.
Beneath night's far flung, tenuous cloud-bars
They breast the north wind, racing with the dawn.
With sibilant, rhythmic swish of mighty wings,
In splendid solitude the gray geese go.
Hurtling triumphant over earth-bound things,
Seeking a haven which they only know.

Far overhead, a phantom, fading wedge,
Their gong-like notes beating against the sky,
They hasten to the distant reeds and sedge,
The cloistered lake, the sheltering hills nearby.
Like galleons which drift into a bay,
They gently drop to rest at break of day.





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