Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LAKE LOUISE, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON


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LAKE LOUISE, by                    
First Line: Only divinity, enrapt, could mould
Last Line: The lonely lovliness of lake louise.
Subject(s): Lakes; Travel; Pools; Ponds; Journeys; Trips


Only Divinity, enrapt, could mould
The mighty masonry of such a cup
As girds and guards, and lifts you proudly up
Against the heaven whose jeweled nights you hold
In your clear depths, reset in liquid gold.
Thin, limpid noons gleaming from top to top,
Dim, filmy, trails where early twilights drop,
All in triumphant surety embowled.

This is the chalice of all deep white dreaming.
All who will taste of wonder-vision wine
Must come in solitude, on reverent knees,
High silences down every swift slope streaming,
To drink, devout, as at an upper shrine,
The lonely lovliness of Lake Louise.





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