Shadows

There’s every shade of every faintest color,

    The roses hand down nodding, rich and red;

Tall purple lilies hedge the paths, and yonder

    A saucy daisy nods its careless head;

And pink and green and heliotrope and amber

    Are spattered here and there and everywhere,

And in the afterglow of the sun’s setting

    All color mixed seem drifting through the air.

 

But when tonight the friendly moon is rising

    ‘Twill throw its shadows down athwart the ways,

The ways we knew, the ways that knew our walking,

    And the tall poplars, standing in its rays,

Will look the darker for the moon behind them,

    And the red rose will lose its color, too,

And every bush and shrub will throw a shadow;

    There are but shadows where I walked with you.

 

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