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Motley and Other Poems

by Walter de la Mare

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Invocation

The burning fire shakes in the night,
    On high her silver candles gleam,
With far-flung arms enflamed with light,
    The trees are lost in dream.

Come in thy beauty! ’tis my love,
    Lost in far-wandering desire,
Hath in the darkling deep above
    Set stars and kindled fire.

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