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Immensity

by John Hall Wheelock

AT noon I watched
In the large hollow of eternal heaven
A soaring hawk climb slowly toward the sun
Through gyres of adoration without end.
His flight was a great prayer ...

From: 
Anthology of the Worlds Best Poems Volume II (Memorial -- Selected by Edwin Markham)
Copyright ©: 
1948 Wm. H. Wise & Co., Inc. New York




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