Picture Show (Sassoon collection)/Miracles

by Siegfried Sassoon

For works with similar titles, see Miracles.

MIRACLES

 

I dreamt I saw a huge grey boat in silence steamingDown a canal; it drew the dizzy landscape after;The solemn world was sucked along with it—a streamingLand-slide of loveliness. O, but I rocked with laughter,Staring, and clinging to my tree-top. For a lakeOf gleaming peace swept on behind. (I mustn't wake.)

And then great clouds gathered and burst in spumes of greenThat plunged into the water; and the sun came outOn glittering islands thronged with orchards scarlet-bloomed;And rosy-plumed flamingoes flashed across the scene...O, but the beauty of their freedom made me shout...And when I woke I wondered where on earth I'd been.