Thine Alabaster Cities Gleam
Survival in Tough Times: The words of Katherine Lee Bates just shock me now. What a time she knew, when the towers of alabaster were the pillars of a great civilization now fallen on hard times
By Dr. Bruce Smith —— Bio and Archives--January 15, 2024
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Alabaster, noun
A dense, translucent, white or tinted fine-grained gypsum.
Katherine Lee Bates wrote the poem in 1893, a remarkable year by any standard. She traveled from Boston to Colorado Springs, observing and marvelling all the way. Stopping at Niagara Falls, then the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, she witnessed that astonishing celebration of the potential of free people.
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