Out in the dark over the snow |
The fallow fawns invisible go |
With the fallow doe ; |
And the winds blow |
Fast as the stars are slow.
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Stealthily the dark haunts round |
And, when the lamp goes, without sound |
At a swifter bound |
Than the swiftest hound, |
Arrives, and all else is drowned ;
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And star and I and wind and deer, |
Are in the dark together,
- near, |
Yet far, - and
fear |
Drums on my ear |
In that sage company drear.
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How weak and little is the light, |
All the universe of sight, |
Love and delight, |
Before the might, |
If you love it not, of night.
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Edward
Thomas |
Classic Poems |
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