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WITCHERY by FRANK DEMPSTER SHERMAN

First Line: OUT OF THE PURPLE DRIFTS
Last Line: COMES NOW THE MOTH-WHITE MOON!
Subject(s): DREAMS; MOON; NIGHT; SEA; WITCHCRAFT & WITCHES; NIGHTMARES; BEDTIME; OCEAN;
Out of the purple drifts,
From the shadow sea of night,
On tides of musk a moth uplifts
Its weary wings of white.

Is it a dream or ghost
Of a dream that comes to me,
Here in the twilight on the coast,
Blue cinctured by the sea?

Fashioned of foam and froth --
And the dream is ended soon,
And lo, whence came the moon-white moth
Comes now the moth-white moon!






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