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Who wrote this poem?
There is a poem I remember pretty much verbatim from childhood, I must have learnt it by heart back then. Weird how that has stuck in my mind and not quadratic equations, but c'est la vie.
However I can't remember who wrote it. Here's what I remember: As I lay quietly in the grass Half dreaming, half awake I saw four children barefoot pass Across the tufted brake The sky was glass, the pool was glass And not a leaf did shake The autumn berries clustered thick Seldom I'd met with more I thought these children came to pick Many as picked before Each had a long and crooked stick And crowns of ash they wore But not one berry did they take Gliding, I watched them go Hand in hand across the lake With sallies to and fro So half asleep and half awake I guessed what now I know They were not children, live and rough Nor phantoms of the dead But spirits, woven of airy stuff By wandering fancies led Creatures of silence, fair enough No sooner seen than sped Anyone recognise it? |
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