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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
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