Oklahoma City By Night

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James Neill Northe was a well-known Oklahoma City book dealer and author. He died in 1993 at the age of 99. Northe dealt in rare and out-of-print books from his business known as A Points Northe bookstore.  Northe was a singer, pianist, lecturer, composer, reader, teacher, reviewer and poet, dealer in out-of-print and rare books, and recipient of national and international prizes and awards.

Source: The Daily Oklahoman October 22, 1993, p.6.

Oklahoma City by Night

Oklahoma City By Night

Oh you may take the long hard days with bright

Designs of sun and street - but I will set

My magic course for night, and know my debt

Is good, for cabalistic signs still write

Strange symbols, blending sky to earth in light

The sorceress of moon and stars will net

The vagrant lights in mist and steam will fret

Its wraithlike path across the eerie night

Now some may look beneath by day, and see

The sidewalks, grey and plain; may hear the sound

Of traffic - watch the snakelike street, but I

Must put my faith in stars, toward the free

Design of God. For out of reddish ground

There springs my faith in man that shall not die.

- James Neill Northe

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