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Evening Song of SenlinConrad AikenIt is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves, remote in a pale blue starlight, Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown …There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under a sea: And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me …I wait in the dark once more, Swung between space and space: Before my mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face. Is it I who stand in a question here, Asking to know my name? … It is I, yet I know not whither I go, Nor why, nor whence I came.It is I, who awoke at dawn And arose and descended the stair, Conceiving a god in the eye of the sun, — In a woman’s hands and hair. It is I whose flesh is grey with the stones I builded into a wall: With a mournful melody in my brain Of a tune I cannot recall …There are roses to kiss: and mouths to kiss; And the sharp-pained shadow of death. I remember a rain-drop on my cheek, — A wind like a fragrant breath … And the star I laugh on tilts through heaven; And the heavens are dark and steep … I will forget these things once more In the silence of sleep.
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- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
