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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOONLIGHT FANTASY, by FLORA MARION LOUGEE
First Line: Riding swiftly along in the moonlight
Last Line: For a little flock of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Fantasy
First Line: Riding swiftly along in the moonlight
Last Line: For a little flock of stars.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lougee, F. Marion
Subject(s): Fantasy
Riding swiftly along in the moonlight
Close to the menacing mountainside
'Round a curve we came without warning
To a vista coned out wide.
Far below in the cuplike valley,
By the mountain half concealed,
Lay a tiny jeweled city
Unsuspected until revealed.
Every separate gleaming facet
Battled the muffling misty moon,
Like a dream on the edge of consciousness,
Fighting the Lethe that comes too soon.
Was it really a modern city
That we gazed upon that night?
Or an old forgotten ruin
Lit by fireflies' fickle light?
Much more likely the guardian angel
Who the gates of heaven unbars,
Makes of that secret vale a pasture
For a little flock of stars.
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