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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT WIND, by MABEL WILES SIMPSON
First Line: Oh wind who kisses the trees to sleep
Last Line: Who has taught you to ride the sea?
Subject(s): Wind
First Line: Oh wind who kisses the trees to sleep
Last Line: Who has taught you to ride the sea?
Subject(s): Wind
Oh Wind who kisses the trees to sleep,
You ride away with the dawn!
And drink the tears that the willows weep,
And dance with the spotted fawn.
Sometimes you climb to the Lady Moon
And twine the stars in your hair,
Or eat their dust on a reedy spoon,
And float on the silvered air.
Away you rock in a lily pod
Or sail in a floating bloom,
While the forest laughs with its merry god,
And scatters its strange perfume.
Sometimes you saddle the great green sea
And ride on the crested waves,
Shouting your joyous monarchy
In the mouths of the shadowed caves.
Wind! Wind! Answer me!
Who has taught you to ride the sea?
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