Palestine

Lola Ridge

Old plant of Asia—
Mutilated vine
Holding earth’s leaping sap
In every stem and shoot
That lopped off, sprouts again—
Why should you seek a plateau walled about,
Whose garden is the world?

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• Lola Ridge : Reveille
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• Lola Ridge : Skyscrapers
• Lola Ridge : Sons Of Belial
• Lola Ridge : Spires
• Lola Ridge : Spring
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