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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BROCELIANDE, by ALAN SEEGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Broceliande! In the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade
Last Line: Broceliande. . . .
First Line: Broceliande! In the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade
Last Line: Broceliande. . . .
Broceliande! in the perilous beauty of silence and menacing shade,
Thou art set on the shores of the sea down the haze
of horizons untravelled, unscanned.
Untroubled, untouched with the woes of this world
are the moon-marshalled hosts that invade
Broceliande.
Only at dusk, when lavender clouds in the orient twilight disband,
Vanishing where all the blue afternoon they have drifted in
solemn parade,
Sometimes a whisper comes down on the wind from the valleys
of Fairyland ----
Sometimes an echo most mournful and faint like the horn of a huntsman
strayed,
Faint and forlorn, half drowned in the murmur of foliage
fitfully fanned,
Breathes in a burden of nameless regret till I startle,
disturbed and affrayed:
Broceliande --
Broceliande --
Broceliande. . . .
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