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THE POET by BURL BREDON

First Line: THE POET BREATHES AND LIVES THE SONG HE MAKES
Last Line: AND WALKS IN SUNLIT MORNING ALL DAY LONG.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;
The poet breathes and lives the song he makes.
He owns a heart that moves by lonely lakes
where wild things are, where wind-whipped waves come in
To tumble on the pebbles.
Hill and linn
To him are things intangible, yet real;
Rude in the only beauty that can steal
Across the heart before he is aware.
He cannot see -- yet knows that it is there.
He wraps his heart around the silent song
And walks in sunlit morning all day long.



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