Walt Whitman: On the Beach at Night
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892) Leaves of Grass (1855 - 1892)
Når himlen er dækket af skyer og alt minder om en begravelse, så gør det godt at huske de strålende planeter og stjerner.
On the Beach at Night
On the beach at night,
Stands a child with her father,
Watching the east, the autumn sky.
Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black masses spreading,
Lower sullen and fast athwart and down the sky,
Amid a transparent clear belt of ether yet left in the east,
Ascends large and calm the lord-star Jupiter,
And nigh at hand, only a very little above,
Swim the delicate sisters the Pleiades.
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