On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:20:51 -0700, Z NP-f6 wrote
(in article <r7s7769ahbdckdqfdguoakj2bfogagmr29@4ax.com>):
> A fabulous poem,thanks.
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> It was set to music by the English lover of boys Benjamin Britten.
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> Z
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> 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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Thanks. I didn't know it had been set to music.
I'm going to post some of these poems from time to time.
They are from a collection I saved from years ago (pre the Fort, I think)
from a person posting as Ianthe.
I really don't know anything about him except he posted a ton of this stuff
and I saved a lot of it.
Perhaps some of the other long-time followers of these groups knows more
about the person.
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