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The Pond
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| The Pond written by William Henry Davies |
| From "Secrets", 1924 |
So innocent, so quiet - yet
That glitter in the water's eye
Has some strange meaning there, I fear;
Did waves run wild and butt this bank
With their curled horns, when it happened here?
Beneath these heart-shaped lily-leaves,
In water, lies a broken heart:
And one white lily in this place -
In this deep, silent, leaf-bound pond -
Is that dead woman's upturned face.
| This work is in the public domain in countries where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. |
