Six Verses of Thoreau Along the Lehigh by Ronald Rabenold

Here's to the Advent of Spring:

Blue and green, white

Contrasts red, black and white

Wind, light and water

Against bough, girded steel and rock

Things are not the same

Paltry puddle against aching thirst

Immoral versus immortal

Colliding visions lifted

Above grassed plain

I know the rock sings

Not the “babbling brook”

The steel does not bend

Yet the light does slant

Sounds carried

Leafed life lifted

Expanding universal law

“Solitude will not be solitude”

Winds will push along

Turning green white

Eternal singing rocks

Tinkering smattering plashing patter

Softening tinkling splashing

Rippling dashing

Alone among amid
Contrasted
Harmony
Colliding adrift
Rigid and free