Friday, 4 November 2011

Fireflies

Das Irrlicht - Arnold Bocklin, 1882

We, fireflies; burn for a day
And think it a forever.
Flitting through the cosmic dark;
Wisps of twilight rising,
Caught like silk on Autumn's leaves,
Hung amongst the ageing trees,
Frame the rolling amaranth skies,
Which round the quieted fireflies.



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