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I woke to daylight and to find	A
A wreath of fading vine leaves rough entwined	A
Lying as dropped in hasty flight upon my floor	B
	-
Dropped from thy head sweet Spirit of the night	C
Who cam'st with footstep light	C
Blown in by the soft breeze as thistledown	D
In through my open door	B
Whence From the woodland from the fields of corn	D
From flirting airily with the bright moon	D
Playing throughout the hours that go too soon	D
Ready to fly at the approach of morn	D
Thou cam'st	E
Bent on the curious quest	F
To see what mortal guest	F
Dwelt in the one roomed cottage built to face the dawn	D
	-
Thou didst pause	G
Shy timid on the threshold though there laughed	H
The mischief in thy roguish eyes then soft	I
Thou crosst the room on tiptoe to my bed	J
One finger on thy lip	K
Cautious to make no slip	K
I saw the wreath of vine leaves on thy head	J
	-
Then with a twirl	L
Thinking I slept	M
And a joyous whirl	L
Into a dance leapt	M
The careless spirit too long restrained	N
The purest dancing	O
Feet sometimes chancing	O
To touch the ground	P
Then starting up with a fresh high bound	P
To hang for a moment poised in the air	Q
And a glimpse of white teeth glancing	O
And a laughing face beneath tossing hair	Q
An orgy a revel a living joy	R
Embodied in one slim woodland boy	R
Dancing forward backward now here now there	Q
Swaying to every impulse unconstrained	N
	-
Thou wert too pure for Bacchus and too young for Pan	D
What wert thou In the daytime dost thou sleep	S
In a cave	T
Like a grave	T
Till the moon calls thee in the sleep of man	D
To thy light revels through the sombre deep	S
Wood's shadows to a space among the trees	U
Where the breeze	U
Makes music through the branches for thy dance	V
And the large eyed and silent deer stand round	P
Peeping through tree trunks and each forest sound	P
The trickling stream's	V
Murmur in its dreams	V
The shepherd's pipe far echoing by chance	V
Melt all for thee	W
To one soft harmony	W
While for the lighting of thy mossy slope	X
The moon thy lover sheds an opal glow	Y
Pale silver green the colour of the leaves	V
Of olive trees	V
The limelight on the stage for Youth and Joy and Hope	X
And at the first rose menace of the dawn	D
Must thou go	Y
Fly to thy cave thou little pagan Faun	D
	-
The fount of joy was bubbling in thine eyes	V
Dancing was in thy feet	E
And on thy lips a laugh that never dies	V
Unutterably sweet	E
Dance on for ever young for ever fair	Q
Lightfooted as a frightened bounding deer	Z
Thy wreath of vine leaves twisted in thy hair	Q
Through all the changing seasons of the year	Z
And tread to Autumn's gorgeous hymn of praise	V
And to the happy Spring's light lilt of pleasure	A2
And to the dirgeful chant of Winter's days	V
And ever varying ever suited measure	A2
And in the Summer when the reeking earth	B2
Swings a vast censer as it is most meet	E
Praise thou for lavish gifts new hopes new birth	B2
Praise with the dancing of thy tireless feet	E
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I woke to daylight and to find	A
A wreath of fading vine leaves rough entwined	A
Lying as dropped in hasty flight upon my floor	B

Victoria Mary Sackville-west

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