Voices and visions / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]

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Voices and visions / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
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Boston, Mass.: Sherman, French & Company
1908
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"Voices and visions / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9544.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

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LEBANON

IMMEMORIAL cedar groves; Valleys where the shepherd roves; Peaks of purple; cinnabar Slopes, and fields where poppies are, Each a little mimic sun, And at night the matchless star Leaning over Lebanon!
Vast horizons; shattered shrines; Terraces that verdant vines, Arbor linking arbor, drape,— Where the sleek skins of the grape Yield the ichor of the sun; Taste, and who would fain escape Out of golden Lebanon?
Far above, its crest aglow, Hermon filleted with snow; Far below, the Tyrian sea, A great turquoise, dreamily Turning topaz in the sun; Soul and sense you hold in fee, O alluring Lebanon!

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To have seen you, evermore Means to yearningly deplore Life where paler glories fret With remembrance and regret; Ah, to linger where the sun,— Allah's shield exalted set,— Shines o'er lovely Lebanon!
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