Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A REVERIE, by CHARLES EDWIN SCHOFIELD


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First Line: Far rolls the broad missouri's ochre flood
Last Line: For cave-men of the twentieth century.
Subject(s): Humanity


FAR rolls the broad Missouri's ochre flood,
Low hang the misty curtains of the sky,
The world lies moist and penitent beneath
The lingering tears of Morning's storm of grief.
The tall gaunt monks of human industry
Draw low around their heads their smoky cowls
Where, in the grimy sweating Shrines of Toil,
The Priests of Labor watch their altar fires.
Around upon the high encircling hills
The steps of man have left their prints in stone,
In lines of gray hard avenues of trade,
In piles of rugged granite, roughly hewn
To build new hills and hollow cavern homes
For cave-men of the twentieth century.





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