Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RUIN, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE



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First Line: When the last colors of the day
Last Line: Tinges their tiny acorn shoon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter


When the last colors of the day
Have from their burning ebbed away,
About that ruin, cold and lone,
The cricket shrills from stone to stone;
And scattering o'er its darkened green,
Bands of the fairies may be seen,
Chattering like grasshoppers, their feet
Dancing a thistledown dance round it:
While the great gold of the mild moon
Tinges their tiny acorn shoon.





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