Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, GREY WALLS, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN


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GREY WALLS, by                    
First Line: Why, though I had seen those things
Last Line: Yet ever united?
Subject(s): Beauty; Walls


WHY, though I had seen those things
The world has to offer
That men call most fair,
And 'broider with terms of wonder and magnificence,
Did I remain blind to beauty
Until, by chance, I saw a spray of apple-blossoms
Across an angle made by the meeting
Of two old grey walls?
Apple blossoms I had seen before,
And walls. Then why at that moment
Did something in me open
That made me understand the world's beauty
And also its pain?
And why do I know that in some strange fashion
The two are one, ever striving together,
Yet ever united?





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