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" Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.

That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.

My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song, then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.

Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn. "

Harold Monro , Collected Poems


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Harold Monro quote : Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:<br />It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond<br />Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond<br />Stares. And you sing, you sing.<br /><br />That star-enchanted song falls through the air<br />From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,<br />Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;<br />And all the night you sing.<br /><br />My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee<br />As all night long I listen, and my brain<br />Receives your song, then loses it again<br />In moonlight on the lawn.<br /><br />Now is your voice a marble high and white,<br />Then like a mist on fields of paradise,<br />Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,<br />Then breaks, and it is dawn.