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Mountain Child

Mountain Child Albert Stewart Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2007, p. 15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0064 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432325/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:22 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—ALBERT STEWART In the illimitable spaces of childhood time was his only dimension -Wm. Golden, Darkness Visible Where the raincrow mourns his hoarse prayer at night And minnows drowse in crystal gardens of the dark, Where shafted sunlight spans green oaten meadows And jarflies sizzle their July mowing machine songs, You walk familiar hills seeding a land of memory. You know the place where the humming bird nests, The moist coves where bees make wild lin honey And the haunts of mountain tea and partridge berry. The master oak plummets an acorn in your path And by Edenic waters mint beds lift lavender cones. The ceremonial seasons revolve /recycle around you: The delicate watercolor Persephone spring, the lush Thrush and whippoorwill summer, the grieving Sacrificial autumn, the on-hold Redbird winter. This is your final land, Mountain Child. Live on in this quiet country of the mind, Unharmed and harmless here, Charmed in time and child famous. —Albert http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Mountain Child

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Appalachian Review , Volume 35 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Albert Stewart Appalachian Heritage, Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2007, p. 15 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2007.0064 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/432325/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 18:22 GMT from JHU Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR—ALBERT STEWART In the illimitable spaces of childhood time was his only dimension -Wm. Golden, Darkness Visible Where the raincrow mourns his hoarse prayer at night And minnows drowse in crystal gardens of the dark, Where shafted sunlight spans green oaten meadows And jarflies sizzle their July mowing machine songs, You walk familiar hills seeding a land of memory. You know the place where the humming bird nests, The moist coves where bees make wild lin honey And the haunts of mountain tea and partridge berry. The master oak plummets an acorn in your path And by Edenic waters mint beds lift lavender cones. The ceremonial seasons revolve /recycle around you: The delicate watercolor Persephone spring, the lush Thrush and whippoorwill summer, the grieving Sacrificial autumn, the on-hold Redbird winter. This is your final land, Mountain Child. Live on in this quiet country of the mind, Unharmed and harmless here, Charmed in time and child famous. —Albert

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