The Soul Of A Century/Siesta
SIESTA
The dreams of greyish blue awoke in the shadows of the snow
Whose lustre fell asleep in the soft-tinged yellow shades.
In the drifts of streaming light the air settled in sheets of hard chilled glow
And froze the grating sound of the wind-wheels turning blades.
The peace of white-stretched lines spread over the sleeping plain
Like a garb of undulating levels and lifeless forests of old,
The birds in their flight traced a net across the azure skies in vain,
And the breath of living men, froze not beneath the cold.
Only a Great Thought swept over the land like a floating cloud,
It spoke with the play of shades, the dreams of light, the voices of soundless calm,
With exerted strengths and a dominant sad melancholic shroud
That breathes into the human soul from the snow’s comforting balm.
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was legally published within the United States (or the United Nations Headquarters in New York subject to Section 7 of the United States Headquarters Agreement) between 1929 and 1977 (inclusive) without a copyright notice. The longest-living author of this work died in 1987, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 36 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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