I loved illustrious cities and
the crowds
That eddy through their
incandescent nights.
I loved remote
horizons with far clouds
Girdled, and fringed about
with snowy heights.
I loved fair women,
their sweet, conscious ways
Of wearing among hands
that covet and plead
The rose ablossom
at the rainbow's base
That bounds the world's
desire and all its need.
Nature I worshipped,
whose fecundity
Embraces every vision
the most fair,
Of perfect benediction.
From a boy
I gloated on existence.
Earth to me
Seemed all-sufficient
and my sojourn there
One trembling opportunity for joy.
~ I loved / Alan seeger
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