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First Line: The wind and his sheep have hurdled
Last Line: Crumbles the adobe haunt of men.
Subject(s): Arizona


The wind and his sheep have hurdled
The horizon's stone wall
And empty now the blue corral of the sky.
The Catalinas guard the mesa
With splendor of breadth and shoulder,
An incandescent sun bedazzling facets
Of vermilion granite ranks.
Hairy sahuaros with lifted arms,
Tokens of peaceful surrender
To the judgment of solitude,
Face solemn rock ribbed sentinels.
Here mesquite and catclaw
Wage war with the root.
For supremacy over moist subterranean flows.
Near the foot of that blooming chulla
A toad at sight of gopher teeth
Inflates with simmering air.
Carrion wings spread and float on waves of heat.
Yonder there, in far away purple,
Where the battered windmill wails,
Crumbles the adobe haunt of men.





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