Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
America: Vols. XXV–XXIX. 1876–79. | | | | Western States: Prairies, The | | The Prairie | | John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892) |
| | (From The Panorama)
BEYOND, the prairie’s sea-like swells surpass | |
| The Tartar’s marvels of his Land of Grass, | |
| Vast as the sky against whose sunset shores | |
| Wave after wave the billowy greenness pours; | |
| And, onward still, like islands in that main | 5 |
| Loom the rough peaks of many a mountain chain, | |
| Whence east and west a thousand waters run | |
| From winter lingering under summer’s sun. | |
| And, still beyond, long lines of foam and sand | |
| Tell where Pacific rolls his waves aland, | 10 |
| From many a wide-lapped port and land-locked bay, | |
| Opening with thunderous pomp the world’s highway | |
| To Indian isles of spice, and marts of far Cathay. * * * * * | | | | |
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