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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THROUGH FIELDS OF MOONLIGHT, by RAELENE NEWELL WHITE
First Line: An eager hound through fields of moonlight ran
Last Line: Beauty forgotten for little hares of rest?
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs
First Line: An eager hound through fields of moonlight ran
Last Line: Beauty forgotten for little hares of rest?
Subject(s): Animals; Dogs
An eager hound through fields of moonlight ran
And etched his beauty on the autumn night.
Soon he was followed by a drunken man
Whose feckless shadow lurched into the light.
The hound who gave so much to beauty saw
No beauty for his nose was all to him,
But man, though drunken, saw it on a paw,
Plunged after it and called, "Come back here, Jim!"
O blind white beauty of the hound and moon,
May only those who follow beauty see?
Supposing man on some amazing noon,
Or April dawn, or autumn night, should be
A white hound running down the west,
Beauty forgotten for little hares of rest?
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