The Prairie
A world, wide, wide;
Hours, long, and slow;
High grass, brown, dead;
Hills, dim and low;
A sky, blue, blue;
A hawk, high, lone;
A blazing sun,
To clouds, unknown;
A bird, small, small,
And timid and gay;
A cactus bloom;
A coyote at play;
A wind, wild, wild;
A tree, dim, far,
On a bluff, red, steep;
Twilight__a star;
A moon, gold, gold;
Silence, deep, deep;
Magic, mystery,
Night__and sleep.
__Dorothy Statton
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