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Icy wind of night be gone

This is not your domain

In the sky a bird is heard to cry

Misty morning whisperings

and gentle stirring sounds

Belied a deathly silence

That lay all around

Hear the lark and hearken

To the barking of the dog fox

Gone to ground

See the splashing of the kingfisher

flashing to the water

A river of green is sliding

Unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes

Through the endless summer

Making for the sea

In the lazy water meadow

I lay me down

All around me golden sunflakes

Covering the ground

Basking in the sunshine

Of a by-gone afternoon

Bringing sounds of yesterday

Into this city room

Hear the lark and hearken

To the barking of the dog fox

Gone to ground

See the splashing of the kingfisher

flashing to the water

A river of green is sliding

Unseen beneath the trees

Laughing as it passes

Through the endless summer

Making for the sea