Everglades
Like emerald rivers, or the rippling sea,
Round myriad visionary isles they swim,
Rivers of grass, and tufted islands dim,
Where wave the mangrove and the cypress tree;
Illimitable fields of mystery,
Fading from view on the horizon rim, —
Behold the Everglades! whereover skim
Wild waterfowl, of all free things most free!
Most free, and yet forevermore pursued,
Forevermore pursuing, — how like those
Dusk Savages who sought the solitude
Of yon green hummocks to escape their foes.
Is there no Freedom that can refuge find
For Man, against his predatory kind?
Round myriad visionary isles they swim,
Rivers of grass, and tufted islands dim,
Where wave the mangrove and the cypress tree;
Illimitable fields of mystery,
Fading from view on the horizon rim, —
Behold the Everglades! whereover skim
Wild waterfowl, of all free things most free!
Most free, and yet forevermore pursued,
Forevermore pursuing, — how like those
Dusk Savages who sought the solitude
Of yon green hummocks to escape their foes.
Is there no Freedom that can refuge find
For Man, against his predatory kind?
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