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The Hudson Review
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July 1, 2008
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Hold, memory, a vision out of Greece:
The west wind breathes a ripening breath
As each pear, pendant and golden, brushes
Another, where four tilled acres glisten
Winter and summer: fig, olive, currant,
And the heavy succulent pomegranate
-Sunstruck for the plucker's hand.
All this a stranger sees, palm on lintel,
sees the stately women of the royal rooms
Murmuring over linen, looms humming;
sees boys, on pedestals, shine torches
Which fire the eyes of Alkinöos's hounds.
So much of heroism wondrously found
(Like a glinting pebble in a child's hand,
Borne upward to imagination's shallows),
As I'd gaze at snow blanketing West End,
Hearing the story my father burnished