Friday, October 04, 2013
Dryads
Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967), "Dryads," The Old Huntsman and other Poems (London: William Heinemann, 1917), p. 74:
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When meadows are grey with the morn,
In the dusk of the woods it is night;
The oak and the birch and the pine
War with the glimmer of light.
Dryads brown as the leaf
Move in the gloom of the glade;
When meadows are grey with the morn,
Dim night in the wood has delayed.
The cocks that crow to the land
Are faint and hollow and shrill:
Dryads brown as the leaf
Whisper and hide and are still.
