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Old 24-04-2008, 09:14 PM
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Re: Favourite wildlife poems

My favorite is Silver by Walter De La Mare


Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of silver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in silver feathered sleep
A Harvest Mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

I first came across it at school I remember having to learn it off by heart. Even so I still think its a wonderful poem.

Barbara
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