<h2 id="id00236" style="margin-top: 4em">PRAIRIE</h2>
<p id="id00237">Where yesterday rolled long waves of gold<br/>
Beneath the burnished blue of the sky,<br/>
A silver-white sea lies still and cold,<br/>
And a bitter wind blows by.<br/></p>
<p id="id00238">But nothing passes the door all day,<br/>
Though my watching eyes grow worn and dim,<br/>
Save a lean, grey wolf that swings away<br/>
To the far horizon rim.<br/></p>
<p id="id00239">Then, one by one, the stars glisten out<br/>
Like frozen tears on a purple pall—<br/>
The darkness folds my cabin about<br/>
And the snow begins to fall.<br/></p>
<p id="id00240">I will make a hearth-fire red and bright<br/>
And set a light by the window pane<br/>
For one who follows the trail to-night<br/>
That will bring him home again.<br/></p>
<p id="id00241">Love will ride with him my heart to bless—<br/>
Joy will out-step him across the floor—<br/>
What matters the great white loneliness<br/>
When we bar the cabin door?<br/></p>
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