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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT DRIVE, by HELEN MCGAUGHEY
First Line: I ride with music under stars that shine
Last Line: And be, myself, a comrade of the dark.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: I ride with music under stars that shine
Last Line: And be, myself, a comrade of the dark.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
I ride with music under stars that shine
Above a sycamore that branches tall.
The evening dew now blooms on flowers of mine.
I hear above the air an eerie call,
And stop while crickets shrill their melody
To a sleepy bird that stirs upon her nest.
A rushing train makes known its majesty
In bearing down upon a city's rest.
White roads like flattened serpents in the night
Now beckon me between tall fields of corn.
An earthly meteor, I would send my light
Swift speeding as a star till early morn,
And see the moon go down, an amber arc,
And be, myself, a comrade of the dark.
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