Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BLITHE LAND, by GRACE MEREDITH


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BLITHE LAND, by                    
First Line: All over the land
Last Line: That laughter brings.


All over the land,
in deep canyons and on high mesas,
a silent laughter floats -- it drifts in the sand,
and swells with the notes
of the birds' song;
it rustles through the cottonwoods
on the edge of the deserts,
and whispers in the evergreens
on the ledge of the mountains;
it ripples along the waters
of the lakes, and follows
the slow-winding rivers;
it hums with the winds
through the villages, and quivers
with the drums in the pueblos.
All over the land and the water
of the ancient southwest country;
in the genial sunshine,
in the brilliant light of low-hung stars,
falling with the rain,
dropping with the hail,
melting with the snow,
the still small bars
of silent laughter grow into the mind --
no word is heard,
no sound of any kind is stirred
into being,
only the sense of laughter clings
within and about all things,
inaudible, intangible, yet real
as hope -- the blithe feel of laughter
swings -- the eternal spirit of laughter,
and the compelling, vibrant lift
that laughter brings.





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