<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447503" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From the Somme</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In other days I sang of simple things,<br>Of summer dawn, and summer noon and night,<br>The dewy grass, the dew wet fairy rings,<br>The larks long golden flight.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Deep in the forest I made melody<br>While squirrels cracked their hazel nuts on high,<br>Or I would cross the wet sand to the sea<br>And sing to sea and sky.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When came the silvered silence of the night<br>I stole to casements over scented lawns,<br>And softly sang of love and love’s delight<br>To mute white marble fauns.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oft in the tavern parlour I would sing<br>Of morning sun upon the mountain vine,<br>And, calling for a chorus, sweep the string<br>In praise of good red wine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I played with all the toys the gods provide,<br>I sang my songs and made glad holiday<br>Mow I have cast my broken toys aside<br>And flung my lute away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A singer once, I now am fain to weep,<br>Within my soul I feel strange music swell,<br>Vast chants of tragedy too deep - too deep<br>For my poor lips to tell.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Leslie+Coulson">Leslie Coulson</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=447503" data-title="From the Somme de Leslie Coulson" data-description="In other days I sang of simple things, Of summer dawn, and summer noon and night, The dewy grass, the dew wet fairy rings, The larks long golden flight. Deep in the forest I made melody While squirrels cracked their hazel nuts on high, Or I would..."></div> </div> </div>

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