Dream-Song by Walter de la Mare Sunlight, Moonlight, Twilight, Starlight-- Gloaming as the close of day, And an owl calling. Cool dews falling In a wood of oak and may, Lantern-light, Taper-light, Torch-light, no-light: Darkness at the shut of day, And lions roaring, Their wrath purring In the wild waste place far away. Elf-light, Bat-light, Touchwood-light,and Toad-light, And the sea a simmering gloom and gray, And a small, face smiling In a dream beguiling In a world of wonders far away. |