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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PEORIA, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography
First Line: O the music of they name, peoria!
Last Line: Peoria!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Peoria, Illinois
First Line: O the music of they name, peoria!
Last Line: Peoria!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Peoria, Illinois
O THE music of thy name,
Peoria!
When with May thy meadows flame,
When the wild crab woos the bees
To its bowers, and Judas-trees
Tint thy budding woods with red;
When from all thy groves and leas,
As if grief and care were dead,
And life and joy forever wed,
Bluebirds, thrushes, orioles,
In rapturous song pour forth their souls;
Then I know 'twas first in May
Thy Indian lovers came this way,
And, tranced with bloom and song of bird,
Coined thee this melodious word —
Sweet as far-off bugle note
Fall the syllables and float —
Peoria!
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