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YUCCA, by                    
First Line: Yucca, yucca, burning white
Last Line: Holding high your candle's gleam.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Yucca Plants


Yucca, yucca, burning white,
Desert candle, limpid light,
Keep your waxen flame aglow
Where the sage and grease-wood grow.

Keep your taper burning bright
Like a faithful acolyte.
Does your candle waft a prayer,
Or are you just waiting there?

Yucca moths will seek your light
Shining bravely through the night.
Pay no heed to maunderings;
Let them singe their ardent wings.

Vestal Virgin of the waste,
In your temple safe incased,
Be contented just to dream,
Holding high your candle's gleam.





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