R. F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir
MOONLIGHT NORTH AND SOUTH

Andrew Lan

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Love, we have heard together

The North Sea sing his tune,

And felt the wind's wild feather

Brush past our cheeks at noon,

And seen the cloudy weather

Made wondrous with the moon.

Where loveliness is rarest,

'Tis also prized the most:

The moonlight shone her fairest

Along that level coast

Where sands and dunes the barest,

Of beauty seldom boast,

Far from that bleak and rude land

An exile I remain

Fixed in a fair and good land,

A valley and a plain

Rich in fat fields and woodland,

And watered well with rain.

Last night the full moon's splendour

Shone down on Taunton Dene,

And pasture fresh and tender,

And coppice dusky green,

The heavenly light did render

In one enchanted scene,

One fair unearthly vision.

Yet soon mine eyes were cloyed,

And found those fields Elysian

Too rich to be enjoyed.

Or was it our division

Made all my pleasure void?

Across the window glasses

The curtain then I drew,

And, as a sea-bird passes,

In sleep my spirit flew

To grey and windswept grasses

And moonlit sands—and you.

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