Over vales and hills

Een prachtige gedichtenbundel over de natuur, seizoenen en dieren in Engeland met bijpassende oude zwart-wit foto's. Er staan zoveel mooie gedichten in, dit is er één van:

"Slowly, silently, now the moon

Walks the night in her silver shoon;

This way, and that, she peers, and sees

Silver fruit upon silver trees;

One by one the casements catch

Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;

Couched in his kennel, like a log,

With paws of siler sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in silver-feathered sleep

A harvest mouse goes scamerping by,

With silver claws, and silver eye;

And moveless fish in the water gleam,

By silver reeds in a silver stream."

Walter de la Mare

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