Earth mingled so with heaven

Here's another Nan Shepherd poem, from the relatively recent 2014 reprint, of her 1934 singular poetry collection ...

... I do remain thoroughly absorbed by all things Shepherd and Baker :-)


The Hill

So it may be a hill was there,
Blue, tremulous, afar.
I looked and thought the gleam was air,
And thought the morning star

Might tremble thus and thus resolve
Its fire in common light,
Content, while world and sun revolve,
To vanish from the sight.

So hard it was that morn to tell
If earth or heaven I saw,
I knew not how on earth to dwell
Nor how from heaven withdraw.

For vanishing within my thought,
And stealing back to view,
Earth mingled so with heaven, they wrought
One universe from two.

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Nan Shepherd (1893-1981)

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