<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348232" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ancestral</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The star dissolved in evening—the one star <br>The silently <br>and night O soon now, soon <br>And still the light now <br>and still now the large <br>Relinquishing <br>and through the pools of blue <br>Still, still the swallows <br>and a wind now <br>and the tree <br>Gathering darkness: <br>I was small. I lay <br>Beside my mother on the grass, and sleep <br>Came— </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>slow hooves and dripping with the dark <br>The velvet muzzles, the white feet that move <br>In a dream water <br>and O soon now soon <br>Sleep and the night. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And I was not afraid. <br>Her hand lay over mine. Her fingers knew <br>Darkness,—and sleep—the silent lands, the far <br>Far off of morning where I should awake.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Archibald+MacLeish">Archibald MacLeish</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348232" data-title="Ancestral de Archibald MacLeish" data-description="The star dissolved in evening—the one star The silently and night O soon now, soon And still the light now and still now the large Relinquishing and through the pools of blue Still, still the swallows and a wind now and the tree Gather..."></div> </div> </div>

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