The Moth (de la Mare)

The Moth written by Walter de la Mare

Flora: A Book of Drawings (1919)

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     Isled in the midnight air,
     Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
     Out into glooming and secret haunts
     The flame cries, 'Come!'
 
     Lovely in dye and fan,
     A-tremble in shimmering grace,
     A moth from her winter swoon
     Uplifts her face:

     Stares from her glamorous eyes;
     Wafts her on plumes like mist;
     In ecstasy swirls and sways
     To her strange tryst.

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