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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLACK BLIZZARD, by RENA CAREY SHEFFIELD
First Line: Over the dust bowl is the hand of death
Last Line: And lead into the light a land gone blind.
First Line: Over the dust bowl is the hand of death
Last Line: And lead into the light a land gone blind.
Over the Dust Bowl is the hand of Death
And the harsh whistle of the grimy gale,
Hoarse, strangled choking of the land's dry breath
That beats on throbbing flesh its sand-sharp flail.
There are no songbirds in this barren waste,
No green of trees to catch their sheltered trill:
Only the blizzard's black, devouring haste
To cover beauty with a pall of chill.
The up-tipped bin of heaven's hollow cleft
Is filled with gritty siftings of the storm,
And desolation weaves its sombre weft
Upon sparse homesteads once alight and warm.
O God of all forgotten things, be kind
And lead into the light a land gone blind.
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