Poems (Browning)/Sunlight and Shadow
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Sunlight and Shadow
We rode to the sunset, I and my shadow,Through distance we glamoured In gold and in gray;My plunder the pearl drops Asleep in the shallowsOf all budding flower hearts In petaled array.
We danced in our frolic, I and my shadow,On to the shore lands Where caverns lie deep;I wearied of darkness And fled to the meadow,To leave in each crevice My shadow asleep.
We felt the cool winds rush, I and my shadow,I came with the sunbeams That followed the dawn;The mist veil of shadow Was left for the dreamer,While I rode imprisoned In rays of the sun.