Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO THE BLUE, HIGH MOUNTAIN, by REBECCA EMERY MORTON


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TO THE BLUE, HIGH MOUNTAIN, by                    
First Line: The japanese have fujiyama, we
Last Line: White-capped above a sea of amethyst!
Subject(s): Mountains; Pikes Peak, Colorado; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


The Japanese have Fujiyama, we
Have you in snow-clad majesty;
Remote, you are unceasingly
Uplifted for our sight against the blue
Of Colorado sky's most vivid hue.

Changeless you stand, the same yet not the same
From morning's dawn to evening's painted flame,
Lovely and lonely, deaf to our acclaim;
All lights and shadows play along your crest,
Changing your face, though you remain at rest.

Now lapis lazuli in clear moonglow
Your beauty to your worshippers may show
Purpling to darkness where the slope dips low;
Aquamarine the heavens o'er your head
Are breathless wonder for the rapt gaze spread.

Or gloomily above our homesteads warm
Dark blue you brood in shadowed time of storm,
Etched sharp with snow to outline your clear form;
And yet, oh dreamlike peak, we love you best
In common garb of snow and sunshine dressed:

Fair in the early light your slopes seem brown,
Darkling and rich beneath your snowy crown,
Changing to blue as the high sun slips down,
Plunging in splendor to its nightly tryst,
And leaves you veiled in filmy clouds of mist,
White-capped above a sea of amethyst!





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