Quotation by Galway Kinnell

The stars glittered on the snow and nothing answered.
Then the Swan spread her wings, cross of the cold north,
The pattern and mirror of the acts of earth.
Galway Kinnell (b. 1927), U.S. poet. To Christ Our Lord (l. 28–30). . .

Room for Me and a Mountain Lion; Poetry of Open Space. Nancy Larrick, comp. (1974) M. Evans and Company.
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