A fabulous poem,thanks.
It was set to music by the English lover of boys Benjamin Britten.
Z
On 22 Aug 2010 18:10:02 -0500, Morpheus <Morpheus@dreamland.com>
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>IN THE MOONLIGHT WILDERNESS
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>Encintured with a twine of leaves,
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>That leafy twine his only dress!
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>A lovely Boy was plucking fruits,
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>By moonlight, in a wilderness.
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>The moon was bright, the air was free,
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>And fruit and flowers together grew
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>On many a shrub and many a tree
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>And all put on a gentle hue,
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>Hanging in the shadowy air
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>Like a picture rich and rare.
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>It was a climate where, they say,
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>The night is more belov'd than day.
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>But who that beauteous Boy beguil'd,
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>That beauteous Boy, to linger here ?
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>Alone, by night, a little child,
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>In place so silent and so wild--
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>Has he no friend, no loving mother near ?
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> Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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