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Cambridge Poets 1900–1913
Cambridge Poets 1900–1913 (1913), PDF p. 146
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Constantine
Michaelides .
Nightshade
and
poisoned
ivy,
hemlock ,
vines
Luring
the hungry
with
bright
deadly
fruit,
Like
poisoned
snakes
mocking
the
shapes
of plants.
And
birds
flew
then
like
living
things
of light,
Knowing
at worst
the arrow
swift and free ;
Their
voices and
the
chirp
of
cicadae
Seemed
then
the
chain
of
an
unending
song
That
interlaced
the
woods
and
crowned
its
dells
With
living
coruscations
of
sweet
sound
.
The magic motions
of
the
forest
then
Spanned
the
free
arches
of
a
simple
age
When
man
was part
of
nature
and
his work
Seemed
but
a
slighter
fashioning
of
her
own
.
As once
did
sleep
the
present
,
sleeps
the
past
:
Who knows whether the same still
sentinels
of
trees
Await
not
in
some nether
depth
of
time
The reinsurgence
of
their
reign
of
sleep
,
When
men
shall
hail
them
once
again
with
joy
A
new
land watching
o'
er
the unknown
sea
.
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