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Sands at Seventy

The First Dandelion

Simple and fresh and fair from winter’s close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter’d grass⁠—innocent, golden, calm as the dawn, The spring’s first dandelion shows its trustful face.

America

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons, All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old, Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich, Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love, A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother, Chair’d in the adamant of Time.

Memories

How sweet the silent backward tracings! The wanderings as in dreams⁠—the meditation of old times resumed⁠—their loves, joys, persons, voyages.

To-day and Thee

The appointed winners in a long-stretch’d game; The course of Time and nations⁠—Egypt, India, Greece and Rome; The past entire, with all its heroes, histories, arts, experiments, Its store of songs, inventions, voyages, teachers, books, Garner’d for now and thee⁠—To think of it! The heirdom all converged in thee!

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