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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPRESSIONS: LA FUITE DE LA LUNE, by OSCAR WILDE Poet's Biography
First Line: To outer senses there is peace
Last Line: Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Moon
First Line: To outer senses there is peace
Last Line: Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Moon
To outer senses there is peace,
A dreamy peace on either hand,
Deep silence in the shadowy land,
Deep silence where the shadows cease.
Save for a cry that echoes shrill
From some lone bird disconsolate;
A corncrake calling to its mate;
The answer from the misty hill.
And suddenly the moon withdraws
Her sickle from the lightening skies,
And to her sombre cavern flies,
Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
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