"Wilderness Rivers" by Elizabeth Coatsworth appears with errors in Prentice Hall Standardized Test Preparation CD-ROM, Copper Level, CriticalReading/Relationships/ Set 6/Items 1–6.
The poem should appear as follows:
"Wilderness Rivers" by Elizabeth Coatsworth
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There are rivers that I know, born of ice and melting snow, white with rapids, swift to roar, with no farms along their shore, with no cattle come to drink at a staid and welcoming brink, with no millwheel, ever turning, in that cold relentless churning. |
Only deer and bear and mink at those shallows come to drink, only paddles, swift and light, flick that current in their flight. I have felt my heart beat high, watching with exultant eye, those pure rivers which have known no will, no purpose but their own. |