Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, FERVENT HOUR, by LUTHER LAURENCE DOWRICK PRATT


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FERVENT HOUR, by                    
First Line: A sacrificial glow
Last Line: An ecstasy of fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, Laurence


A sacrificial glow
Transforms the harvest's yield;
Slow inward fires consume
The brown grass of the field.

The breathing cedars lift
Warm incense in the sun;
And through the leafy copses
Crimson blushes run

As ripe trees acquiesce
To the searing-sweet embrace
Of sultry autumn winds --
Priests of a pagan race.

The god of autumn laughs,
The flush of leaves mounts higher,
Till every bush is bright --
An ecstasy of fire.





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