<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365714" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dyes Cast</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each night<br>As he drops his head<br>To the deep dream<br>Of the dark bed, <br>A shape beckons him<br>Wellaway<br>From the starlight<br>And the dim day.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A mare<br>Black as a spade, calls<br>From the dark hill<br>As the wind falls, <br>The reeds mutter<br>The night is black<br>As he leaps blind<br>To the mare’s back.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then like the roar<br>Of an ill wind<br>Or a black flame<br>From the devil’s kiln, <br>The mare speeds<br>To the night’s work<br>By the old mill<br>And the dark Kirk.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Shapes flutter<br>And leap alight<br>Before they sputter<br>And, out of sight<br>Disport and mutter<br>Of black arts<br>To see the mare<br>And the rider pass.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hour on hour<br>He clings to scenes<br>Of dark images, <br>Wild dreams<br>And chance friends<br>From the dead past<br>In the grim haunts<br>Of dyes cast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His face burns<br>And tears stream<br>In the long night<br>Of the dark dream, <br>He clings grim<br>To the mare’s back<br>For his soul’s sake<br>And a long lack.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day brinks<br>At night’s mist; <br>‘There may be nothing<br>More than this, ’<br>The mare fades<br>From his wide eyes –<br>But the thoughts bide, <br>And the old lies.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘There may be nothing<br>More than this! ’<br>And his mind seeks<br>The mare, the mist; <br>‘There may be nought<br>But the dead past, <br>And the dark haunts<br>Of dyes cast.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">27 December 1978</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</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=365714" data-title="Dyes Cast de David Lewis Paget" data-description="Each night As he drops his head To the deep dream Of the dark bed, A shape beckons him Wellaway From the starlight And the dim day. A mare Black as a spade, calls From the dark hill As the wind falls, The reeds mutter The night is black As he l..."></div> </div> </div>

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