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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FRONTIER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography
First Line: O the glorious purple line
Last Line: Greeting the purple carpathians!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Carpathians
Subject(s): Carpathian Mountains, Hungary
First Line: O the glorious purple line
Last Line: Greeting the purple carpathians!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Variant Title(s): The Carpathians
Subject(s): Carpathian Mountains, Hungary
O THE glorious purple line
Of the mountains lifted along the west!
Bright, in the sun, their summits shine;
Dark, in the shade, their valleys rest.
Cossack and Tartar may hold the plains,
And the rivers that creep to a tideless sea;
Mine be the heights where the eagle reigns,
And cataracts thunder, and winds blow free!
Not for the steepe, with its desert sheen,
From Austria's border to China's wall,
Would I give the upland pasture's green,
The beech-tree's shadow, the brooklet's fall.
Vanish, O weary, mournful level!
Welcome, O wind my brow that fans!
In the splendor of earth again I revel,
Greeting the purple Carpathians!
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