DAWN IN THE ALLEGHANIES
The waters leap, The waters roar;And on the shoreOne sycamoreStands, towering hoar.The mountains heapGaunt pines and cragsThat hoar-frost shags;And, pierced with snags,Like horns of stags,
Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]
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- Cawein, Madison Julius, 1865-1914
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- New York: E.P. Dutton and Company
- 1906
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"Nature-notes and impressions : in prose and verse / by Madison Cawein [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAP5363.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 14, 2024.
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The water lags,The water drags,Where trees, like hags,Lean from the steep.
The mist beginsTo swirl; then spins'Mid outs and insOf heights; and thinsWhere the torrent dins;And lost in sweepOf its whiteness deepThe valleys sleep.
Now morning strikesOn wild rampikesOf forest spikes,And, down dim dykesOf dawn, like sheep,Scatters the mists,And amethystsWith light, that twists,And rifts that run Azure with sun,—Wild-whirled and spun,—The foggy dun O' the heavens deep.
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Look! how they keep Majestic ward, Gigantic guard! And gaze, rock-browed, Through mist and cloud! Eternal, vast, As ages past! And seem to speak, With peak on peak, Of God! and see Eternity!