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WHITE AZALEAS
Harriet McEwen Kimball [1834-1917]
Azaleas - whitest of white!
White as the drifted
snow
Fresh-fallen out of the night,
Before the coming glow.
Tinges the
morning light;
When the light is like the snow,
White,
And the silence
is like the light:
Light, and silence, and snow, -
All - white!
White! not a hint
Of the creamy tint
A rose will hold,
The whitest
rose, in its inmost fold;
Not a possible blush;
White as an embodied
hush;
A very rapture of white;
A wedlock Of silence and light:
White,
white as the wonder undefiled
Of Eve just wakened in Paradise;
Nay, white
as the angel of a child
That looks into God's own eyes!
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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