Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN


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First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun
Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight


NOW praise the Lord, both moon and sun,
And praise Him, all ye nights and days,
And golden harvests everyone,
And all ye hidden waterways,
With cattle standing to the knees
Safe from the bitter gadfly's sting;
But praise Him most, O little breeze
That walks abroad at evening.

Oh, praise Him, all ye orchards now,
And all ye gardens deep in green,
Ripe apples on the yellowing bough,
And golden plum and nectarine,
And peaches ruddier than the rose,
And pears against the southern wall;
But most the little wind that blows,
The blessed wind at evenfall.

Oh, praise Him, hoary dews again,
Drenching the meadows 'neath the moon,
And praise Him, hidden founts of rain,
And amber brooks singing a tune,
And icy deeps of well-water,
And each pellucid stream and spring;
But praise Him most, O wind astir,
O blessed wind at evening.

Oh, praise Him now, ye burning days
Of golden summer, hot and spent;
Planets and stars, see that His praise
Be blown about the firmament.
Yet praise Him best, O little wind
That out of heaven will blow and call,
Because, because our God is kind
And bids us live at evenfall.





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