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| Pete Matthews Jr © 2023 |
| 2023-04-23 40 Tennessee River walk, Knoxville TN |
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Here the river suddenly ceases its wild leaping down the mountains and like a maiden about to be married pauses to dream upon upon the alliance it is speedily to form with a mightier stream..... The hills sit here like dethroned kings, met for consultation: They would be very garrulous, surely, but the exquisite peace of the pastoral scene below them has stilled their life; they have forgotten the ancient anarchy which brought them forth; they dream and dream away ... Poet Sidney Lainer [1842-1881], in his only novel, Tiger-Lilies, describing a scene on the river in 1860. __________ Known as the poet of the Confederacy and for The Boy's King Arthur, he had an illustrious life shortened by tuberculosis caught in a military prison. |