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A FOREST RENDEZVOUS by WILLIAM GRIFFITH

First Line: THEY SAID SOMEONE WAS WAITING
Last Line: BEING BLIND.
Subject(s): FORESTS; LOVE - LOSS OF; WOODS;
They said someone was waiting;
And at the trysting oak
Sudden enchanting voices
Leaf-lightly spoke.

Daylong she had been coming,
And all the forest sang
Of beauty: elfin-softly
The bluebells rang.

Nightlong she was in shadow,
She who went away
As the moon does in the silver
Veils of day.

I see no course to follow,
Alas, nor where to find
The silver way she vanished,
Being blind.



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