Collected poems by Vachel Lindsay :: :: University of Virginia Library

Lindsay, Vachel (1879-1931)

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Where does Cinderella sleep?
By Heaven's jungle-river,
A secret place her burning Prince
Decks, while his heart-strings quiver.

Homesick for our cinder world,
Her low-born shoulders shiver;
She longs for sleep in cinders curled—
We, for the jungle-river.