| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (1878–1962). Anthology of Massachusetts Poets. 1922. |
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| THE MOON is a wavering rim where one fish slips, | |
| The water makes a quietness of sound; | |
| Night is an anchoring of many ships | |
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| There are strange tunnelers in the dark, and whirs | 5 |
| Of wings that die, and hairy spiders spin | |
| The silence into nets, and tenanters | |
| Move softly in. | |
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| I step on shadows riding through the grass, | |
| And feel the night lean cool against my face; | 10 |
| And challenged by the sentinel of space, | |
| I pass. | |
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