Excerpt from In the Beginning

by Harriet Monroe, 1860-1936

Editor and Literary Critic

 

For light a thousand wings

  Of joy unfurled,

And bound with golden rings

  The icy world.

 

And color flamed the earth

  With glad desire,

Till life sprang to the birth,

  Fire answering fire...

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Macro photograph: hand-colored ice sheet.