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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT CHIDEOCK: SEPT 2, 1914, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poet's Biography
First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst
Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world!
Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia
First Line: In skies washed over with bright amethyst
Last Line: For england, and for man, and for the world!
Subject(s): Anniversaries; France; Future; Nostalgia
In skies washed over with bright amethyst
The moon rides keen and golden and the dale
At other hours so pastoral and pale,
On Sedan's anniversary is kissed
By a low mystery of moon-drenched mist
That is far lovelier than in any tale
Read of in Arthur's day. Now not a sail
Doth in the motions of the sea enlist!
The darkling down and the deserted sea
Shut out my birth-land. Yet, an ageing man,
I hear the cannon of long-past Sedan,
And, O my France, fighting like serpent curled,
Wonder what Fate is now in store for thee,
For England, and for man, and for the World!
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