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A SonnetAuthor(s): Alice BrownSource: The North American Review, Vol. 219, No. 823 (Jun., 1924), p. 836Published by: University of Northern IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25113329 .
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836 THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
But not a whisper froze the waiting shadows; No voice was added to the choir of care, Until I croaked into a world of silence, "How are they over there?"
Then like the last priest of a vanished nation, The shadow drew the cowl about its head, And with a web-like hand made salutation, And went back to the dead.
A SONNET BY ALICE BROWN
My twilight garden waits me in a hush More poignant than the silvery lighted moon, Or when each plant becomes a burning bush Reflected from the climbing tide of noon.
I walk therein, I prop and water them, These miracles in leafy spur and hood. Sometimes they seem to brush my garment's hem
With an unspoken meaning: gratitude, A sense of homely memories we share,
The days we fought and worsted flood or drouth, Our sadness when November stalks blow bare Or wilting winds are sultry from the south. A leaf?is it a finger??touches me, As I move past, dumb yet remindingly.
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