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SPRING ARTICULATE by GEORGE H. DILLON

First Line: THESE SPRINGS, ARTICULATE OF RESURRECTION
Last Line: FROM SLEEP WHICH IS A SUSTENANCE TO THESE.
Subject(s): SPRING;

These springs, articulate of resurrection,
Do so persuasively recur to bring
A youth to every elemental thing
Which is one essence in fourfold dissection,
Telling what clearer clarities lie locked
Within each globe of dew, how wind and flame
Clothe variously the unapparent same
Infinity whereby the seed is rocked, --
That I forsake a fear which is just
And dubious old property of dust,
Seeing the common couch of slaves and kings
Lonely and dark among the roots of trees
Whence I must sometime wake to other springs
From sleep which is a sustenance to these.



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