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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LOT'S WIFE, by ELIZABETH MORROW
First Line: If you would sing of heroes, sing of her
Last Line: The sky saluted and prometheus bowed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Lot (bible)
First Line: If you would sing of heroes, sing of her
Last Line: The sky saluted and prometheus bowed!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cutter, Elizabeth Reeve
Subject(s): Lot (bible)
If you would sing of heroes, sing of her
For she was young and dauntless, unafraid
In sodom's chaos; nothing could deter
That backward look where beating brimstone played;
Those loyal eyes cost her brief flesh and blood.
Tell us no tale of shame or wickedness
Only how faith and courage at the flood
Became a white and shining loveliness.
Became a white and shining loveliness.
So let the gleaming pillar on the plain
Rebuke safe cowards running from the past:
They make no salt beneath a fiery rain,
No savor of their little deeds will last.
But when Lot's wife put on her crystal shroud
The sky saluted and Prometheus bowed!
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