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LANDSCAPE OF LOVE by PATRICIA KATHLEEN PAGE

First Line: WHERE THE BOG ENDS, THERE, WHERE THE GROUND LIPS, LOVELY IS LOVE, NOT LONELY
Last Line: THE FIELD GLASSES.
Subject(s): LOVE; NATURE;

Where the bog ends, there, where the ground lips, lovely
is love, not lonely.
Land is
love, round with it, where the hand is;
wide with love, cleared scrubland, grain
on a coin.
Oh, the wheatfield, the rock-bound rubble;
the untouched hills
as a thigh smooth;
the meadow.
Not only the poor soil lovely, the outworn prairie,
but the green upspringing,
the lark-land,
the promontory.

A lung-born land, this,
a breath spilling,
scanned by the valvular heart,
the field glasses.



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