BIB_ID
419425
Accession number
MA 4706.11
Display Date
Place not specified, undated
Credit line
Purchased, 1991.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 25.5 x 20.5 cm
Notes
The authorship of the poem is unknown and there is no evidence of publication.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
The poem is undated but the collection includes correspondence dating from October 15, 1930 to March 25,1952.
Provenance
Purchased on the Gordon Ray Fund, 1991.
Summary
Being a poem of three 4-line stanzas as follows: Upon a hill there grows a tree / Whose roots go down among the dead / And in a still security / Enmesh each hollow, dreamless head. / Upon the tree blossoms a flower, / Whose beauty, sprung from deathly fears, / Transmutes the pain of every hour / And is bedewed with living tears. / From withered flower falls a seed / That's made into immortal bread / And to eternity shall feed / The hungry living, and the dead."
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