Weird Tales/Volume 13/Issue 4/Moon Mockery
MOON MOCKERY
I walked in Tara's Wood one summer night, And saw, amid the still, star-haunted skies, A slender moon in silver mist arise,And hover on the hill as if in fright. Burning, I seized her veil and held her tight: An instant all her glow was in my eyes; Then she was gone, swift as a white bird flies, And I went down the hill in opal light.
And soon I was aware, as down I came, That all was strange and new on every side; Strange people went about me to and fro,And when I spoke with trembling mine own name They turned away, but one man said: "He died In Tara Wood, a hundred years ago."
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