Nature

Banishment

by Theodore Harding Rand 1835–1900

From At Minas Basin, and Other Poems (1897)

Nature

As tiptoe dawn extinguished all the stars,
There lay on a fevered flower the cooling dew;
Full soon the scornful sun, with white heat glare,
Forever bade the offending thing from view;
But as day closed, it outshone flaming Mars,
Or wheeling splendors of the Northern Bear.

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Rand, Theodore Harding. “Banishment.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rand_th/48/.

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