Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY


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THE RAINBOW, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fairies built a bridge
Last Line: From here to far-away.
Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring


THE fairies built a bridge
From Here to Far-Away—
Of gossamer and mist,
Upon an April day
The fairies built a bridge
As shining as a tear,
As lovely as a dream,
From Far-Away to Here.

They borrowed from the sun,
They bargained with the moon,
A million dyes they stole
From gardens rich with June;
With crystal of the rain,
With sapphire from the sea,
With turquoise from the sky
They built it cunningly.

Then, lest some alien step
Its shining arch might scale,
They hid each rainbowed end
In Opal-tinted veil—
And never, through the years,
On any April day,
Has mortal crossed the bridge
From Here to Far-Away.





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