William Herbert Carruth Poems

A fire-mist and a planet,
A crystal and a cell,
A jelly-fish and a saurian,
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We are all of us dreamers of dreams,
On visions our childhood is fed;
And the heart of a child is unhaunted, it seems,
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Somewhere out West there lies a sloping plain
That looks across the winding river track
A mile away to northward, bluish-black
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Poor, homely, unloved things beside the way,
That strive in voiceless ignominy, still
Undaunted though downtrodden, to fulfill
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When you've struggled hard and long
And the battle has gone wrong
And a world of cares oppress you,
Like cool water from a spring,
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Had he been made of such poor clay as we,
Who, when we feel a little fire aglow
'Gainst wrong within us, dare not let it grow,
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I.

I dug a little flower
From out the forest-shade,
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Dear phantoms of my summer's golden
dream!
Across the gulf of miles and years I fling
This ghostly greeting, trusting it may
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Who knows where the graveyard is
Where the fox and the eagle lie?
Who has seen the obsequies
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Come out with me, O maiden mine,
Come out and roam the campus;
I'll wield the fairy bug-net thine,
And flounder through the bindweed vine,
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