54053: Song [2]

<p dir="ltr"> As the clouds that are so light,<br> Beautiful, swift, and bright,<br> Cast shadows on field and park<br> Of the earth that is so dark,<br> And even so now, light one!<br> Beautiful, swift and bright one!<br> You let fall on a heart that was dark,<br> Unillumined, a deeper mark.<br> But clouds would have, without earth<br> To shadow, far less worth:<br> Away from your shadow on me<br> Your beauty less would be,<br> And if it still be treasured<br> An age hence, it shall be measured<br> By this small dark spot<br> Without which it were not.<br>|</p><p>File description(s)::</p><p>Named 'The clouds that are so Light' by Longley in 'Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems' (2008).</p>