Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MAY MORNING, by EARL BOWMAN MARLATT



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First Line: Fancy, the rapture
Last Line: God.
Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Creation; Earth; God; Life; World


Fancy the rapture
Of being there
When the world was made!
Of hiding somewhere
In the lavender shade,
And seeing the stars,
Like a dryad's hair,
Untwined and twinkled
And sprinkled through
A sky of jade,
Becoming beneath their silvering
A tremulous blue.

Magnificent, too,
To watch the mountains come bubbling up
And the valleys beneath them like a cup,
Catching the timorous, tear-like streams,
That trickled from heaven
And God-of-Dreams.

Or in tangled Eden
To see Him touch
With His finger-tips
(His holy hand would have been too much)
A figure of clay,
Its cheeks, its lips,
While a covey of cherubs scurried away
In rapt surprise
At the sight of a soul
In the clay thing's eyes,
And they
Opening
On Paradise.

Or Eve, perhaps,
Her hair still wet
With the frosts of heaven
And the dewy sweat
Of the Hand that made her from Adam's side
And placed her there,
Murmurous, wonder-eyed,
To be his miracle,
Temptress,
Bride.

Fancy the nuptials,
The seeing her nod
At the clean, green world,
And Adam,
His body white on the damp, new sod . . .

That would be rapture,
Alchemy,
God.





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