The star dissolved in evening-the one star
The silently
and night O soon now, soon
And still the light now
and still now the large
Relinquishing
and through the pools of blue
Still, still the swallows
and a wind now
and the tree
Gathering darkness:
I was small. I lay
Beside my mother on the grass, and sleep
Came-
slow hooves and dripping with the dark
The velvet muzzles, the white feet that move
In a dream water
and O soon now soon
Sleep and the night.
And I was not afraid.
Her hand lay over mine. Her fingers knew
Darkness,-and sleep-the silent lands, the far
Far off of morning where I should awake.
Ancestral
Archibald Macleish
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Poem topics: dark, dream, light, mother, tree, water, wind, evening, blue, grass, white, small, velvet, morning, silent, afraid, large, slow, night, star, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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