VERLAINE’S “FORGOTTEN AIRS.” No. VIII.
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Tolstoy, Leo, graf and Maude, Aylmer
In the unending
Dulness of this land,
Uncertain the snow
Is gleaming like sand.
No kind of brightness
In copper-hued sky,
The moon you might see
Now live and now die.
Grey float the oak trees—
Cloudlike they seem—
Of neighbouring forests,
The mists in between.
Wolves hungry and lean,
And famishing crow,
What happens to you
When acid winds blow?
In the unending
Dulness of this land,
Uncertain the snow
Is gleaming like sand.