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These are the gardens of the Desert these	A
The unshorn fields boundless and beautiful	B
For which the speech of England has no name	C
The Prairies I behold them for the first	D
And my heart swells while the dilated sight	E
Takes in the encircling vastness Lo they stretch	F
In airy undulations far away	G
As if the ocean in his gentlest swell	H
Stood still with all his rounded billows fixed	I
And motionless for ever Motionless	J
No they are all unchained again The clouds	K
Sweep over with their shadows and beneath	L
The surface rolls and fluctuates to the eye	M
Dark hollows seem to glide along and chase	N
The sunny ridges Breezes of the South	O
Who toss the golden and the flame like flowers	P
And pass the prairie hawk that poised on high	M
Flaps his broad wings yet moves not ye have played	Q
Among the palms of Mexico and vines	R
Of Texas and have crisped the limpid brooks	S
That from the fountains of Sonora glide	T
Into the calm Pacific have ye fanned	U
A nobler or a lovelier scene than this	V
Man hath no part in all this glorious work	W
The hand that built the firmament hath heaved	X
And smoothed these verdant swells and sown their slopes	Y
With herbage planted them with island groves	Z
And hedged them round with forests Fitting floor	A2
For this magnificent temple of the sky	M
With flowers whose glory and whose multitude	B2
Rival the constellations The great heavens	C2
Seem to stoop down upon the scene in love	D2
A nearer vault and of a tenderer blue	E2
Than that which bends above the eastern hills	F2
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As o'er the verdant waste I guide my steed	G2
Among the high rank grass that sweeps his sides	H2
The hollow beating of his footstep seems	I2
A sacrilegious sound I think of those	J2
Upon whose rest he tramples Are they here	K2
The dead of other days and did the dust	L2
Of these fair solitudes once stir with life	M2
And burn with passion Let the mighty mounds	N2
That overlook the rivers or that rise	O2
In the dim forest crowded with old oaks	P2
Answer A race that long has passed away	G
Built them a disciplined and populous race	N
Heaped with long toil the earth while yet the Greek	Q2
Was hewing the Pentelicus to forms	R2
Of symmetry and rearing on its rock	S2
The glittering Parthenon These ample fields	T2
Nourished their harvests here their herds were fed	U2
When haply by their stalls the bison lowed	U2
And bowed his maned shoulder to the yoke	V2
All day this desert murmured with their toils	W2
Till twilight blushed and lovers walked and wooed	U2
In a forgotten language and old tunes	X2
From instruments of unremembered form	Y2
Gave the soft winds a voice The red man came	C
The roaming hunter tribes warlike and fierce	Z2
And the mound builders vanished from the earth	A3
The solitude of centuries untold	U2
Has settled where they dwelt The prairie wolf	B3
Hunts in their meadows and his fresh dug den	C3
Yawns by my path The gopher mines the ground	U2
Where stood their swarming cities All is gone	D3
All save the piles of earth that hold their bones	E3
The platforms where they worshipped unknown gods	F3
The barriers which they builded from the soil	G3
To keep the foe at bay till o'er the walls	H3
The wild beleaguerers broke and one by one	I3
The strongholds of the plain were forced and heaped	U2
With corpses The brown vultures of the wood	U2
Flocked to those vast uncovered sepulchres	H3
And sat unscared and silent at their feast	U2
Haply some solitary fugitive	J3
Lurking in marsh and forest till the sense	H3
Of desolation and of fear became	C
Bitterer than death yielded himself to die	U2
Man's better nature triumphed then Kind words	H3
Welcomed and soothed him the rude conquerors	H3
Seated the captive with their chiefs he chose	H3
A bride among their maidens and at length	K3
Seemed to forget yet ne'er forgot the wife	M2
Of his first love and her sweet little ones	H3
Butchered amid their shrieks with all his race	H3
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Thus change the forms of being Thus arise	H3
Races of living things glorious in strength	K3
And perish as the quickening breath of God	U2
Fills them or is withdrawn The red man too	U2
Has left the blooming wilds he ranged so long	L3
And nearer to the Rocky Mountains sought	U2
A wilder hunting ground The beaver builds	H3
No longer by these streams but far away	G
On waters whose blue surface ne'er gave back	M3
The white man's face among Missouri's springs	H3
And pools whose issues swell the Oregan	I3
He rears his little Venice In these plains	H3
The bison feeds no more Twice twenty leagues	H3
Beyond remotest smoke of hunter's camp	N3
Roams the majestic brute in herds that shake	O3
The earth with thundering steps yet here I meet	U2
His ancient footprints stamped beside the pool	P3
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Still this great solitude is quick with life	M2
Myriads of insects gaudy as the flowers	H3
They flutter over gentle quadrupeds	H3
And birds that scarce have learned the fear of man	Q3
Are here and sliding reptiles of the ground	U2
Startlingly beautiful The graceful deer	R3
Bounds to the wood at my approach The bee	S3
A more adventurous colonist than man	Q3
With whom he came across the eastern deep	T3
Fills the savannas with his murmurings	H3
And hides his sweets as in the golden age	U3
Within the hollow oak I listen long	L3
To his domestic hum and think I hear	K2
The sound of that advancing multitude	U2
Which soon shall fill these deserts From the ground	U2
Comes up the laugh of children the soft voice	H3
Of maidens and the sweet and solemn hymn	V3
Of Sabbath worshippers The low of herds	H3
Blends with the rustling of the heavy grain	W3
Over the dark brown furrows All at once	H3
A fresher wind sweeps by and breaks my dream	X3
And I am in the wilderness alone	Y3

William Cullen Bryant

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