Tuesday 26 September 2017

“Portent” was published in The Tempers (Elkin Mathews, 1913).

Red cradle of the night,
     In you
           The dusky child
Sleeps fast till his might
   Shall be piled
Sinew on sinew.
 
Red cradle of the night,
    The dusky child
Sleeping sits upright.
    Lo how
                    The winds blow now!
    He pillows back;
The winds are again mild.
 
When he stretches his arms out,
Red cradle of the night,
    The alarms shout
From bare tree to tree,
    Wild
              In afright!
Mighty shall he be,
Red cradle of the night,
    The dusky child!!
 

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