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Impressions (Author: Oscar Wilde)

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La Fuite de la Lune

1. 1] To outer senses there is peace,
   2] A dreamy peace on either hand,
   3] Deep silence in the shadowy land,
   4] Deep silence where the shadows cease.
2. 5] Save for a cry that echoes shrill
   6] From some lone bird disconsolate;
   7] A corncrake calling to its mate;
   8] The answer from the misty hill.
3. 9] And suddenly the moon withdraws
   10] Her sickle from the lightening skies,
   11] And to her sombre cavern flies,
   12] Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.