i contemplate the you i've dreamed flowing as a river's stream now chanting you with my whole being, conceiving a most pleasant frame why is it you enthrall me so to see you on a pedestal? if i should sing your face so fair your sienna eyes, your sylvan hair blue mountain range's misty rise the plains, the hills, your turquoise skies it'd be more than i could bear to fully sing your vast grandeur before these lights of mine go dim want to walk the mountain rim and on the canyon wide and grand to shout my song, to take a stand this land i live, of you, i sing in broken rhyme, prance and sing look out upon your myriad trees chanting of all those yearly rings the quaking aspen and jarupa oak among the oldest things on earth sing of grizzly bears, of caribou the flying squirrels, and masked raccoon the crafty fox, the coyote's howl in the night, your wise hoot owl i sing the soil, earth worms, your fields singing out of red orchard yields fertile and rich with faithful clime makes all rejoice at harvest time your every part commands my song my compassion deeply drawn to fall in love again, and swoon from night and dawn and sun-drenched noon sing great lakes and river-ways both ocean coasts and scenic bays i sing your people to honor those the originals who carried bows their love for you & mother earth from your soil, they had their birth ancient spirits who knew the trees when red woods were just saplings i sing the song of cataclysmic change of those who came to you as strange aliens who were searching for the promised land, but grasping more of crazy horse, his battles fought his unfinished horn now embossed i sing the sorrow of your land when blood was on a brother's hand and the lines of your fair green face were subject to war's gray disgrace i sing the wars, the hate, the lies that blinded everybody's eyes the struggle for this glorious land spanning years from sand to sand i sing of slavery, i sing of those shanghaied to you from african shores i sing the inhumanity they endured worse than what's been ever heard i sing the merit of their cause their contribution giving pause i sing of your diverse people now who stand for all, and take a vow to protect what's yours, home and abroad to be one nation under god i sing america--her theme her vision i sing with my whole being you, freeing land, enthrall me so to put you on a pedestal. 2.7 9/10 © Brian Peter Hodgkinson
Land Of The Pando Quaking Aspen
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Apr