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Prokosch, Dr Frederic - Chosen Poems – Evening
Identifier
029047
Type of Spiritual Experience
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Pears from the boughs hung golden,
The street lay still and cool,
Children with books and satchels
Came sauntering home from school;
The dusk fled softly inward,
Across each darkening sill,
The whole sweet autumn slumbered,
The street lay cool and still:
The children moved through twilight,
The village steeple gleamed,
Pears from their boughs hung trembling
And suddenly it seemed,
Shaken with such a wildness
Of terror and desire,
My heart burst into music
And my body into fire.