At close of day
Language: English
Warm, the desert evening
Closes over the moor.
Was it here we walked and were merry,
Only an hour before?
Magic light in the west
Smiles over the moorland swells:
Fairies invisible roam them
Whispering wonderful spells.
They whisper, and all grows strange:
Shadows are over the stream;
The still, gray rocks are a vision,
The solid ground a dream.
Trees murmur, and hush, and tremble;
The west is drained of light.
Earth slumbers beneath silence
And the beautiful eyes of Night.
Submitted by Ferdinando Albeggiani
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Text added to the website: 2009-01-28.
Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:03:04
Line count: 16
Word count: 82
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