<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365742" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Handsworth Wood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Have ever you seen<br>On Halloween, <br>The cloud that covers the trees so green? <br>The shroud that covers the last of lovers<br>The shifting mist of the in-between? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’ve stood, I’ve stood, <br>By Handsworth Wood, <br>I’ve stood as long as I thought I could; <br>All Hallow’s Eve is the night I grieve<br>My Genevieve of the purple hood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She slipped between<br>The trees so green, <br>She slipped from me one Halloween; <br>The cloud had glimmered, the evening shimmered<br>But she was never to more be seen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And since that cloud<br>Became a shroud, <br>I’ve not forgotten the words I vowed; <br>My patience burns for the cloud’s return<br>To help discern what I might have been.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day she left<br>I held my breath, <br>Her sleight of hand was so very deft; <br>But Genevieve, I still believe<br>You’ll wander out on some Hallow’s Eve.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wait in vain, <br>There’s only rain, <br>The rain and part of the cloud remain; <br>But Genevieve I’ve not perceived<br>Since she went tripping in World’s End Lane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">World End’s Land<br>In Autumn rain, <br>There’s nothing left of my lost refrain; <br>For Handsworth Wood is a neighborhood<br>Where trees are held in a great disdain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">2 July 1977</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=365742" data-title="Handsworth Wood de David Lewis Paget" data-description="Have ever you seen On Halloween, The cloud that covers the trees so green? The shroud that covers the last of lovers The shifting mist of the in-between? I’ve stood, I’ve stood, By Handsworth Wood, I’ve stood as long as I thought I cou..."></div> </div> </div>

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