Mistletoe

The Song of Shadows written by Walter de la Mare

Peacock Pie: A Book of Rhymes (1913)

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 Sitting under the mistletoe
 (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
 One last candle burning low,
 All the sleepy dancers gone,
 Just one candle burning on,
 Shadows lurking everywhere:
 Some one came, and kissed me there.
 
 Tired I was; my head would go
 Nodding under the mistletoe
 (Pale-green, fairy mistletoe),
 No footsteps came, no voice, but only,
 Just as I sat there, sleepy, lonely,
 Stooped in the still and shadowy air
 Lips unseen - and kissed me there.

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