SONG OF THE DAUGHTERS OF CELEUS
by: Louis V. Ledoux (1880-1948)
- EEP the
well and dark the water,
- Far we let our pitchers down.
- Prisoned water, prisoned water,
- Fill the gleaming pitchers brown;
- Fill and brim and sparkle after;
- Pools of sunlight edged with laughter
- Wait their guest in Celeus' town.
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- When we lean above the water,
- Imaged in the twilight lies
- One who comes for Celeus' daughter,
- Kindly brave and kindly wise.
- Shadowy layers of darkness cover
- Him, the coming lord and lover--
- Hers who has the brightest eyes.
"Song of the Daughters of Celeus"
is reprinted from Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1916.
Ed. William Stanley Braithwaite. New York: Laurence J. Gomme,
1916. |
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