# The Silken Tent

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One of my favorite poems, I’ll post the “lyrics” here. Anyone want to take a stab at an alternative and challenge Whitman?

\*She is as in a field a silken tent  
At midday when the sunny summer breeze  
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent,  
So that in guys it gently sways at ease,  
And its supporting central cedar pole,  
That is its pinnacle to heavenward  
And signifies the sureness of the soul,  
Seems to owe naught to any single cord,  
But strictly held by none, is loosely bound  
By countless silken ties of love and thought  
To every thing on earth the compass round,  
And only by one’s going slightly taut  
In the capriciousness of summer air  
Is of the slightlest bondage made aware. \*