Thursday, 11 August 2022

A WINTER NIGHT

 

Like a ribbon that's spun

Of the purest of silk,

The road crossed the cold bleak dale

It appeared that the frost

On the wintry panes

Was embossed with images from beyond the pale

And the winter-sky,

Lit with the moon and the stars,

Made the icicles glow in the night-

And the beauty of all

Of that December view

Was perceived in the essence of light-

And deceived by the soft...firelight.

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