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Corinne H. Smith is a member of the Thoreau Society and a
librarian at Elgin High School in Illinois. A recent visit to
Concord inspired these words. |
Could you hear the planes fly over
From your cemetery ridge?
Or the chilling silence afterward --
No roars above the bridge?
Did the Hawthornes and the Alcotts
Talk it over with you then?
And did one send word to Emerson
At his home around the bend?
Did Concord's best decipher
All the meanings of the act?
Did you enter conversation
And debate it forth and back?
Did Waldo make pronouncements
To expound his point of view?
Did Bronson take the other side,
As he was wont to do?
And what of all the voices
Of the women on the hill?
Did you honor their opinions?
Does the air carry them still?
You've had some time to analyze
And argue once or twice.
Could you spell it out for us, then?
We'll heed your sage advice.
Photo: Town Vigil, CCHS Football Field, September 16, 2001. ©2001 Rich Stevenson.
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