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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESERT FLUTES, by SARAH DELLA ULMER
First Line: When the night is wrapped in slumber
Last Line: I shall rise and follow them.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating
First Line: When the night is wrapped in slumber
Last Line: I shall rise and follow them.
Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating
When the night is wrapped in slumber
With no sound save dampered mutes,
I am sometimes faintly conscious
Of the trill of desert flutes.
They may permeate my dreaming,
They may skirt my deep repose,
They may penetrate the shadow
Where my sleeping spirit goes.
In the dense and murky darkness,
Their roulades may swell and fade,
While I only sense the lulling
Of a dreamy serenade.
When my days at length are numbered
At some twilight's fringent hem,
If the desert flutes are calling,
I shall rise and follow them.
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