Victoria Sackville-West - Moonlight

Victoria Sackville-West - Moonlight

What time the meanest brick and stone br Take on a beauty not their own, br And past the flaw of builded wood br Shines the intention whole and good, br And all the little homes of man br Rise to a dimmer, nobler span; br When colour's absence gives escape br To the deeper spirit of the shape, br br -- Then earth's great architecture swells br Among her mountains and her fells br Under the moon to amplitude br Massive and primitive and rude: br br -- Then do the clouds like silver flags br Stream out above the tattered crags, br And black and silver all the coast br Marshalls its hunched and rocky host, br And headlands striding sombrely br Buttress the land against the sea, br -- The darkened land, the brightening wave -- br And moonlight slants through Merlin's cave.


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Uploaded: 2014-11-07

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