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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LAST QUERY, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Where curves the arched firmament
Last Line: "and answer climbers, ""no one knows""?"
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders
First Line: Where curves the arched firmament
Last Line: "and answer climbers, ""no one knows""?"
Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders
Where curves the arched firmament --
Immense, inscrutable, star-eyed;
Perceived by fool and sage implied, --
A pulse forever never sent
That beats unchanged wild repose:
The wide, all-asking, poet's stair
That beckons each to whence and where,
And answer climbers, "No one knows"?
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