Miss Beauchamp's War in Salonika, item 22

• March 14, 2018 12:45:58 Jessica Adkins

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  Then silence, the more profound for these passing sounds,

  as the glow of the sunset fades behind the mountain

  beyond the harbour bay, and the a warm radiance dies out

  of the sea & leaving it dark but for a few those glinting

  lights from anchored ships at anchor there - dark, but for only for

  a momentarily so - in a little while the moon will

  shed a softer glow (upon the scene bay) and reveal open a 

  shining gleaming pathway across the water, to the home 
  

  of Zeus the gods beyond. A suspicion of soft breeze stirs the fig the

  leaves of the fig tree into a faint rattle; and patches of moonlight

  chase each one the another among the trees in the paved garden, 

  as thoughts pass lightly through the mind, while two

  great water pots that would hide any ten of Ali Baba's forty in deep shadows stand sentinel among

  the roses. 

  The watcher She who loves it all turns to the room within, leaving

  
  

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