(THE SUGGESTED DEVICE OF A NEW WESTERN STATE) FAR-OFF a young State rises, full of might: I paint its brave escutcheon. Near at hand See the log-cabin in the rough clearing stand; A woman by its door, with steadfast sight, Trustful, looks Westward, where, uplifted bright, Some city's Apparition, weird and grand, In dazzling quiet fronts the lonely land, With vast and marvellous structures wrought of light, Motionless on the burning cloud afar: The haunting vision of a time to be, After the heroic age is ended here, Built on the boundless, still horizon's bar By the low sun, his gorgeous prophecy Lighting the doorway of the pioneer! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEISURE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES PARAPHRASE ON THOMAS A KEMPIS by ALEXANDER POPE TO A WOMAN by KENNETH SLADE ALLING PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 93. AL-NOOR by EDWIN ARNOLD RECOGNITION by SUSIE MONTGOMERY BEST THE SCYTHE STRUCK BY LIGHTING by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN LOUISA; A TALE by JANE BOWDLER |