Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE DISCOVERY, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL



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First Line: I watched a moorland torrent run
Last Line: Shall charm and startle to the close.


I WATCHED a moorland torrent run
Down through the rift itself had made,
Golden as honey in the sun,
Of darkest amber in the shade.

In this wild glen at last, methought,
The magic's secret I surprise;
Here Celia's guardian fairy caught
The changeful splendors of her eyes.

All else grows tame, the sky's one blue,
The one long languish of the rose,
But these, beyond prevision new,
Shall charm and startle to the close.





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