Monday, 30 July 2012

Silver.

There is a wicked old moon tonight, it reminded me of this poem.....


                                                Slowly, silently, now the moon
                                                Walks the night in her silver shoon;
                                                This way, and that, she peers, and sees
                                                Silver fruit upon silver trees;
                                                One by one the casements catch
                                                Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
                                                Couched in his kennel, like a log,
                                                With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
                                                From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
                                                Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
                                                A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
                                                With silver claws and a silver eye;
                                                And moveless fish in the water gleam,
                                                By silver reeds in a silver stream.
                                                                                                             -Walter de la mare.
                                                                         

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