Nature
The Northern Lights
From Old-Time Pictures and Sheaves of Rhyme (1874)
Nature
To claim the Arctic came the Sun,
With banners of the burning zone;
Unrolled upon their airy spars
They froze beneath the light of stars;
And there they float, those streamers old,
Those Northern Lights, forever cold!
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Taylor, Benjamin Franklin. “The Northern Lights.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_bf/1/.
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Taylor, Benjamin Franklin. “The Northern Lights.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/taylor_bf/1/.
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