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SageCat · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 10:54 pm Post subject: Hallowe'en Poem

I can't remember where I got this one from now, but it refers to the custom of keeping a lit candle in the window on Hallowe'en. I like this one a lot.

HALLOWE’EN --Lettes

"'Why do you wait at your door, woman,
Alone in the night?'
'I am waiting for one who will come, stranger,
To show him a light.
He will see me afar on the road,
And be glad at the sight.'

"'Have you no fear in your heart, woman,
To stand there alone?
There is comfort for you and kindly content
Beside the hearthstone.'
But she answered, 'No rest can I have
Till I welcome my own.'

"'Is it far he must travel to-night,
This man of your heart?'
'Strange lands that I know not, and pitiless seas
Have kept us apart,
And he travels this night to his home
Without guide, without chart.'

"'And has he companions to cheer him?'
'Aye, many,' she said.
'The candles are lighted, the hearthstones are swept,
The fires glow red.
We shall welcome them out of the night--
Our home-coming dead.'"

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Koko · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 11:51 pm Post subject:

Great poem!
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"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened." - Anatole France

Minty · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 12:18 am Post subject:

I love it, SC. Thanks hun.

BB, Minty. xx
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RavenStar · Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 9:43 am Post subject:

Smashing ~ Thanks SC