StarWind Gardens at Night

NIGHT SONG

There is sweet music here that softer falls

Than petals from blown roses on the grass,

Or night dews on still waters between walls

Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies,

Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

Music that brings sweet sleep down from

the blissful skies.

Here are cool mosses deep,

and through the moss the ivies creep,

and in the stream the long leaved flowers weep,

and from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

- From the Lotos Eaters by Alfred Lord Tennyson -

THE NIGHT

The night will never stay,

      The night will still go by,  

                     Though with a million stars

             You pin it to the sky;

                         Though you bind it with the

   blowing wind

                          And buckle it with the moon,

                   The night will slip away

                      Like a sorrow or a tune.

             -Eleanor Farjeon-

Silent are the woods, and dim the green

boughs are

Hushed in the twilight...

A bright white star blinks, the pale moon

rounds, but

Still the red, lurid wreckage of the sunset

Smoulders in smoky fire, and burns on

the misty hilltops.

Ghostly it grow, and darker, the burning

Fades into smoke, and now the gusty

oaks are

A silent army of phantoms thronging

a land of shadows.

-John Masefield-

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