John Masefield

John Masefield

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Portrait of John Masefield John Masefield The Watch in the Wood

When Death has laid her in his quietude,
And dimmed the glow of her benignant star,
Her tired limbs shall rest within a wood,
In a green glade where oaks and beeches are,
Where the shy fawns, the pretty fawns, the deer,
With mild brown eyes shall view her spirit’s husk
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