America the dutiful
Len Lewis 1943 (Port of Spain, Trinidad)
Lightning clouds have been lit before
But seldom so magnificent
as they shone that day
One twenty oh nine
Not lit from above
by the rays of smiling Sun
But from terra firma
beamed another brilliant Son
America's newest bulb
gleaming upward, onward, on
To a place this civilization
Had never ever seen; or been; or dreamed
So soon it would have come upon.
Came this gifted pied and pious piper
who'd piped a parched planet
to Sam's edge of clear-as-crystal water,
time and recent time again
that it might drink of new elixir.
This time they came in suffrage to the levy
to see, to hear, to be, to care,
to smile, to laugh, to tears of joy.
America had done what it had to do.
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Submitted on May 09, 2012
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 656 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 21 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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