EVENING POEM - SILVER

Slowy, 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 silver sleeps the dog;

From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep

Of doves in a silver feathered sleep;

A harvest mouse goes scampering 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 - one of my favourite poets)

I have enjoyed a pleasant evening with some relatives not seen for a long time. Good to catch up and talk of times past and our ancestors.