Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by FLORIS CLARK MCLAREN


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NO MORE THAN THE SLOW STREAM, by                    
First Line: No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight
Last Line: Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean.
Subject(s): Change; Nature


No more the slow stream spreading clear in sunlight
Lacing the swamp with intricate shining channels
Patterned by wind and the dipping tall marsh grasses:

No more the mica glint in the sliding water
The bright-winged flies and the muskrat gone like a shadow
No more the curved trout breaking concentric silver:

Now the basalt cliffs and the yellow foam in the eddies
Now the strong brown water boiling deeply from under
Now the log abutment left where the bridge has fallen:

O the slow stream lovely, lovely no more in sunlight:
The flotsam of quiet lives turned over and over,
The dark destructive flood; and the plan the promise
Spun in the current, swept toward no visible ocean.





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