Thursday, February 4, 2016

A Prairie Sunset


Listen to:

A Prairie Sunset (:49)

by Walt Whitman 

performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode


  Shot gold, maroon and violet, dazzling silver, emerald, fawn,
  The earth's whole amplitude and Nature's multiform power consign'd
      for once to colors;
  The light, the general air possess'd by them--colors till now unknown,
  No limit, confine--not the Western sky alone--the high meridian--
      North, South, all,
  Pure luminous color fighting the silent shadows to the last.



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