O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the … - Hart Crane

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O Sleepless as the river under thee,
Vaulting the sea, the prairies’ dreaming sod,
Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend
And of the curveship lend a myth to God.

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Harold Hart Crane (July 21, 1899 – April 27, 1932) was an American poet.

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O harp and altar, of the fury fused,
(How could mere toil align thy choiring strings!)
Terrific threshold of the prophet’s pledge,
Prayer of pariah, and the lover’s cry,

There are no stars to-night
But those of memory.
Yet how much room for memory there is
In the loose girdle of soft rain.

And Thee, across the harbor, silver-paced
As though the sun took step of thee, yet left
Some motion ever unspent in thy stride,
Implicitly thy freedom staying thee!

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