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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EASTER IN THE WHITE HILLS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Where the cliffs are lost in clouds Last Line: To waumbek's templed hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Easter; God; Holidays; New Hampshire; The Resurrection | |||
HARK! where the cliffs are lost in clouds That float to the Realm of Souls, 'The Lord is risen!' from peak to peak In rapturous echo rolls! Through Waumbek's templed land it rings From Winnipesaukee's side To far Coös, whose crystal lakes Dower Androscoggin's tide, And brim serene Connecticut, Of mount and main the pride. Agi'ochook from his altars To spired Chocorua calls, And broad Moosil'auk sends the cry Back from his buttressed walls; Franconia answers full and clear With myriad airy voices, And a glory lights the great Stone-Face While all the pass rejoices; And south, the towering sentinels Monadnock's lonely fane, And domed Kearsarge, by Merrimack Swell the celestial strain, Till the sky is filled with the choral notes Of the jubilant refrain! And lo! the rush and roar of streams Freed from their icy prison! Saco to Pemigewasset Proclaims, 'The Lord is risen!' 'Is risen!' sings Ammonoosuc, To the meadows foaming down; 'Is risen!' the waking brooks reply, In the glens yet bare and brown. The sun comes over Katahdin With flame for every crest Flame and rose for the stainless snows That deep on the summits rest; And peak and cloud in the golden rays Shine fair as Tabor's sheen, When heaven embosomed the lonely hill And God of man was seen. Through the sombre firs the west wind sighs And chants to larch and pine 'The Lord is risen!' till echoes steal To the forest's inmost shrine. And list! from the maple boughs a song The angel choir might heed A wild-wood robin warbling sweet, 'The Lord is risen indeed!' And thus, with grandest symphonies, And song the soul that thrills, Comes Easter, golden, glorious, To Waumbek's templed hills. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EASTER EVE by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON EASTER SUNDAY by LUCILLE CLIFTON GOD SEND EASTER by LUCILLE CLIFTON NOT THE CUCKOLD'S DREAM; FOR SAM PEREIRA by NORMAN DUBIE EASTER HYMN by GEORGE SANTAYANA I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS SPANISH EASTER: 1926 by CONRAD AIKEN COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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