Mar 26, 2014
New and Collected Poems 1917-1976, Archibald MacLeish
Houghton Mifflin Company, Sentry Edition, 1976
Paperback
"Words to Be Spoken"
For Baoth Wiborg son of Gerald and Sara Murphy who died in New England in his sixteenth year and a tree was planted there
O shallow ground
That over ledges
Shoulders the gentle year,
Tender O shallow
Ground your grass is
Sisterly touching us:
Your trees are still:
They stand at our side in the
Night lantern.
Sister O shallow
Ground you inherit
Death as we do.
Your year also--
The young face,
The voice--vanishes.
Sister O shallow
Ground
let the silence of
Green be between us
And the green sound.
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