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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS
First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond
Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey
Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century
Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds;
First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond
Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey
Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century
Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds;
Deep in the forest there is a pond,
small, shaded by a pine so tall
its shadow crosses her surface.
The water is cold and dark and clear,
let it preserve those who lie at the bottom
invisible to us in perpetual dark.
It is our heaven, this bottomless
water that will keep us forever still;
though hands might barely touch they'll never
wander up an arm in caress or lift a drink;
we'll lie with the swords and bones
of our fathers on a bed of silt and pine needles.
In our night we'll wait
for those who walk the green and turning earth,
our brothers, even the birds and deer,
who always float down to us
with alarmed and startled eyes.
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