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Dream-Song
By ©Walter de la Mare

Sunlight, moonlight,
Twilight, Starlight--
Gloaming at the close of day,
And an owl calling.
Cool dews falling
In a wood of oak and may.

Lantern-light, taper-light,
Torch-light, no-light:
Darkness at the shut of day,
And lions roaring,
Their wrath purring
In the wild waste place far away,

Elf-light, bat-light,
Touchwood-light, and toad-light,
And the sea a shimmering gloom and gray,
And a small face smiling
In a dream beguiling
In a world of wonders far away.

Dream-Song
poem by ©Walter de la Mare