JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES

JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES(ST. JOHN'S)

JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES(ST. JOHN'S)

JOHN LANGDON-DAVIES(ST. JOHN'S)

Beyondthe last hill stands a rowOf poplars sighing,Amid the dwellings where dreams go.When they are dying.One side the stream, a pleasure groundWhere they carouse;On the far side, with yew-trees bound,The lazar-house.And when the night has riven with starsThe veil of day,I see their drunken half-shapes passBy the stream way."O dreams, O guests, who poisoned nightWith leprosy;Amid the stream and the moonlightOh, think on me!"

Beyondthe last hill stands a rowOf poplars sighing,Amid the dwellings where dreams go.When they are dying.One side the stream, a pleasure groundWhere they carouse;On the far side, with yew-trees bound,The lazar-house.And when the night has riven with starsThe veil of day,I see their drunken half-shapes passBy the stream way."O dreams, O guests, who poisoned nightWith leprosy;Amid the stream and the moonlightOh, think on me!"

Beyondthe last hill stands a rowOf poplars sighing,Amid the dwellings where dreams go.When they are dying.

Beyondthe last hill stands a row

Of poplars sighing,

Amid the dwellings where dreams go.

When they are dying.

One side the stream, a pleasure groundWhere they carouse;On the far side, with yew-trees bound,The lazar-house.

One side the stream, a pleasure ground

Where they carouse;

On the far side, with yew-trees bound,

The lazar-house.

And when the night has riven with starsThe veil of day,I see their drunken half-shapes passBy the stream way.

And when the night has riven with stars

The veil of day,

I see their drunken half-shapes pass

By the stream way.

"O dreams, O guests, who poisoned nightWith leprosy;Amid the stream and the moonlightOh, think on me!"

"O dreams, O guests, who poisoned night

With leprosy;

Amid the stream and the moonlight

Oh, think on me!"


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