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| Home >> Library >> Poems >> The Bird Song of the Wayreth Forest The Bird Song of the Wayreth Forest From Defenders of Magic Volume 1 Novel by Mary Kirchoff Poetry by Michael Williams Easeful the forest, easeful its mansions perfected Where we grow and decay no longer , our trees ever green, Ripe fruit never falling, streams still and transparent As glass, as the heart in repose this lasting day. Beneath these branches the willing surrender of movement, The business of birdsong, of love, left on the borders With all of the fevers, the failures of memory. Easeful the forest, easeful its mansions perfected. And light upon light, light as dismissal of darkness, Beneath these branches no shade, for shade is forgotten In the warmth of the light and the cool smell of the leaves Where we grow and decay no longer , our trees ever green. Here there is quiet, where music turns in upon silence, Here at the world's imagined edge, where clarity Completes the senses, at long last where we behold Ripe fruit never falling, streams still and transparent. Where the tears are dried from our faces, or settle, Still as a stream in accomplished countries of peace, And the traveler opens, permitting the voyage of light As air, as the heart in repose this lasting day. Easeful the forest, easeful its mansions perfected Where we grow and decay no longer , our trees ever green, Ripe fruit never falling, streams still and transparent As glass, as the heart in repose this lasting day. Last Modified: Sunday March 15, 2009 |
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