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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A VALLEY RIDE IN WINTER, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM
First Line: The sunshine struck a glory on the day
Last Line: Of state, the pageant vanishes,—the day is fled.
Subject(s): Day; Nature; Winter
First Line: The sunshine struck a glory on the day
Last Line: Of state, the pageant vanishes,—the day is fled.
Subject(s): Day; Nature; Winter
The sunshine struck a glory on the day:
The radiant hills companioned all our way,
Their dazzling hoods
Drawn to their brows against the winter's cold.
In shimmering veils of mist, the valleys fold
Their fertile fields;—as some houri of old
Conceals her charms; and 'neath fresh sheets of snow,
Lie slumbering there: till, warmed by summer's glow,—
And roused from dreams, they hear
The clarion call of nature to her broods:
The glad response finds voice in burgeoning woods,
In flood of ripening cornfields, wave on wave,
Chasing the shadow by the mountain shed;
In the pure lilt of bird calls, far and near—
Stabbing the silence, as with silver spear:
Till as the sun sinks on his crimson bed
Of state, the pageant vanishes,—the day is fled.
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