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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BURNING BUSH, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poet's Biography
First Line: I found, this evening, far less crowded ways
Last Line: Becomes a living sign that god is here.
Subject(s): God
First Line: I found, this evening, far less crowded ways
Last Line: Becomes a living sign that god is here.
Subject(s): God
I found, this evening, far less crowded ways
Than those which lead me home on other nights.
The streets were not yet dark enough for lights.
I saw them through the violet evening haze
As if through colored glasses. Oaks and bays
Were misty purple-patterned mountain heights,
A background for the loveliest of sights --
A bush with flame-red roses all ablaze!
Was this, I mused, the bush that Moses saw
Against the heights of Horeb, and drew near
But not too near, in reverential awe?
An answer whispered to my inner ear:
All loveliness, to them that know the Law,
Becomes a living sign that God is here.
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