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Silvers and purples breathing in a sky	A
Of fiery mid days like a watching tiger	B
Of the restrained but passionate July	A
Upon the marshes of the river lie	A
Like the filmed pinions of the dragon fly	A
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A whole horizon's waste of rushes bend	C
Under the flapping of the breeze's wing	D
Departing and revisiting	D
The haunts of the river twisting without end	C
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The torsions of the river make long miles	E
Of the waters of the river which remain	F
Coiled by the village tortuous aisles	E
Of water between the rushes which restrain	F
The bewildered currents in returning files	E
Twisting between the greens like a blue racer	B
Too hurt to leap with body or uplift	G
Its head while gliding neither slow nor swift	G
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Against the shaggy yellows of the dunes	H
The iron bridge's reticules	H
Are seen by fishermen from the Damascened lagoons	H
But from the bridge watching the little steamer	B
Paddling against the current up to Eastmanville	A
The river loosened from the abandoned spools	H
Of earth and heaven wanders without will	A
Between the rushes like a silken streamer	B
And two old men who turn the bridge	I
For passing boats sit in the sun all day	J
Toothless and sleepy ancient river dogs	H
And smoke and talk of a glory passed away	J
And of the ruthless sacrilege	K
Which mowed away the pines	H
And cast them in the current here as logs	H
To be devoured by the mills to the last sliver	B
Making for a little hour heroes and heroines	H
Dancing and laughter at Grand Haven	L
When the great saws sent screeches up and whines	H
And cries for more and more	M
Slaughter of forests up and down the river	B
And along the lake's shore	M
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But all is quiet on the river now	N
As when the snow lay windless in the wood	O
And the last Indian stood	O
And looked to find the broken bough	N
That told the path under the snow	P
All is as silent as the spiral lights	H
Of purple and of gold that from the marshes rise	H
Like the wings of swarming dragon flies	H
Far up toward Eastmanville where the enclosing skies	H
Quiver with heat as silent as the flights	H
Of the crow like smoke from shops against the glare	Q
Of dunes and purple air	Q
There where Grand Haven against the sand hill lies	H
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The forests and the mills are gone	R
All is as silent as the voice I heard	S
On a summer dawn	R
When we two fished among the river reeds	H
As silent as the pain	F
In a heart that feeds	H
A sorrow but does not complain	F
As silent as above the bridge in this July	A
Noiseless far up in this mirror lighted sky	A
Wheels aimlessly a hydroplane	F
A man bestridden dragon fly	A

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