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Poems: New and Old

By Henry Newbolt
Newbolt, Henry John (1862-1938)
  
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SONG OF THE SHADOW-ELVES

All about the garden,
All about the garden,
All about the garden
The silent shadows creep.
In and out the roses,
In and out the roses,
In and out the roses
The morning shadows creep.
Close around the dial,
Close around the dial,
Close around the dial
The noonday shadows creep.
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Far across to fayland,
Far across to fayland,
Far across to fayland
The sunset shadows creep.
All in one great shadow,
All in one great shadow,
All in one great shadow
The midnight shadows sleep.
[As they sing Aurora passes on and disappears.]
[Enter a Mortal Youth, delicately dressed: he stretches himself on a green bank languidly, and muses.]
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