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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SUMMER NIGHT, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL
First Line: A hilltop is a witching place
Last Line: On herald wings comes whispering.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
First Line: A hilltop is a witching place
Last Line: On herald wings comes whispering.
Subject(s): Night; Bedtime
A hilltop is a witching place
To greet the soft wind face to face.
And watch the stars that through the night
Bedeck the sky with silver light.
The birches are a magic screen,
With moonlight filtering between,
While softly from the wooded hill,
I hear the plaintive whippoorwill,
The clouds pile up a foamy mass,
And shadows steal across the grass.
A summer night -- how fair a thing --
On herald wings comes whispering.
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