Poems (Dorr)/Too Wide!
TOO WIDE!
O mighty Earth, thou art too wide, to wide! Too vast thy continents, too broad thy seas, Too far thy prairies stretching fair as theseNow reddening in the sunset's crimson tide!Sundered by thee how have thy children cried Each to some other, until every breeze Has borne a burden of fond messagesThat all unheard in thy lone wastes have died!Draw closer, O dear Earth, thy hills that soar Up to blue skies such countless leagues apart! Bid thou thine awful spaces smaller grow!Compass thy billows with a narrower shore, That yearning lips may meet, heart beat to heart, And parted souls forget their lonely woe!