Leaves of Grass :[1891] Including Sands at Seventy...1st Annex, Good-Bye my Fancy...2d Annex, A Backward Glance o'er Travel'd Roads, and Portrait from Life |
RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT.) |
Leaves of Grass :[1891] | ||
RED JACKET (FROM ALOFT.)
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[Impromptu on Buffalo City's monument to, and re-burial of the old Iroquois orator, October 9, 1884.]
Yielded to-day by fashion, learning, wealth,
(Nor in caprice alone—some grains of deepest meaning,)
Haply, aloft, (who knows?) from distant sky-clouds' blended shapes,
As some old tree, or rock or cliff, thrill'd with its soul,
Product of Nature's sun, stars, earth direct—a towering human form,
In hunting-shirt of film, arm'd with the rifle, a half-ironical smile curving its phantom lips,
Like one of Ossian's ghosts looks down.
Leaves of Grass :[1891] | ||