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Title: Clytie--The Sunflower
Author: Leigh Gordon Giltner [
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(To F. H.)
In pale green twilight lands
Under the sea
Her rainbow palace stands,
Irised and opaline;
Agate and almondine,
Corals and pearly shells
Swept from deep ocean dells,
Strewing the silver strands,
Starring the golden sands
In the green twilight lands
Under the sea.
All thro' the dreamy day
Under the sea
Where the sea-maidens play,
Twining foam-garlands fair,
Girding their golden hair,
Clad in her moss-robe green
Veiled in her bright locks' sheen--
Where the dim seaweeds sway,
Trackless her white feet stray
All thro' the dreamy day
Under the sea.
Or like a star she glides
Over the sea,
Deftly her steeds she guides--
Gold-fish that glint and gleam,
Jewels alive they seem--
Softly the surges swell,
Rocking the rosy shell
Where the sea-maiden rides,
Wafture of wooing tides,
Swift as a star she glides
Over the sea.
One day she lifts her eyes
Up from the sea
Where the great sun-god flies
Over the world afar,
Guiding his golden car--
All his star brow aglow,
All his bright hair aflow;
Dawn in his radiance lies,
Dusk at his coming dies--
Hapless she lifts her eyes
Up from the sea.
Swiftly his steeds speed on
Over the sea,
Soon is the splendor flown,
Lone on the shore she stands.
Stretching imploring hands,
Lifting impassioned eyes
Where the last sun-gleam dies;
All the day's brightness gone,
Hapless she stands alone,
Heedless the god speeds on
Over the sea.
Ever her wistful gaze
Over the sea
Yearns on the sun-god's rays--
Till by some subtle power
Changed to a golden flower--
Still in her robe of green,
Crowned with her gold hair's sheen
Slight on her stem she sways ...
Yet does her yearning gaze
Follow the sun-god's rays
Over the sea.
[The end]
Leigh Gordon Giltner's poem: Clytie--The Sunflower
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