Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE MORAINE, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD


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First Line: Look down, love, from the bridge's height
Last Line: To share with others while we may.
Subject(s): Home; New York City - Buildings


Look down, love, from the Bridge's height
And see the buildings piled below,
A heap of pebbles in the night
Where stars like fireflies come and go.

Here by the border of the sea
Where life has left its last moraine,
The soul of man eternally
Resigns its pleasure and its pain.

The glacier glides into the deep,
An endless river of the years,
From the far mountains where they sleep
Who first begot our hopes and fears.

Cave-man, Crusader, scientist,
They pass as pass the centuries;
And teach these stones to still persist
To tally time's infinities.

What does it all mean? Æons dear
Have left Manhattan here to-day
That we might meet. Our home is here
To share with others while we may.





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