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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIX QUATRAINS, by EMMA PEIRCE
First Line: Spring is the opal stair
Last Line: Are all well alight to welcome the morn.
Subject(s): Seasons
First Line: Spring is the opal stair
Last Line: Are all well alight to welcome the morn.
Subject(s): Seasons
Spring is the opal stair
To mount to Summer's heights,
Of flower-embroidered days,
And star-embroidered nights.
The hills are alabaster,
And ebony the trees,
And rare, indeed, the etchings
The Winter makes of these.
The splendor of night has faded away
Before the greater splendor of day;
And the star-flowers sprinkling the Heavenly lawn,
Have been hastily plucked by the Rosy Dawn.
High altars unto Heaven,
The mountains in our sight;
Their shining altar vestments,
The snow that fell o'er night.
Low in the West the full moon rides,
Soon to slip into the silver tides;
While far to the East, the candles of dawn,
Are all well alight to welcome the morn.
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