From: "Sally Caves" <scaves@...>
Subject: Re: Shadow and Dawn
> I think "Shadow and Dawn" is so fine a poem, Jake, that Teonaht could
never
> do it justice.
Don't sell yourself short. Many people around here have the same opinion of
Teonaht itself, and that's a whole language - my thing here is just a single
poem.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph Fatula" <fatula3@...>
> To: <CONLANG@...>
> Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2003 3:37 AM
> Subject: Shadow and Dawn
>
>
> > I was going through some old files, looking for something completely
> > different, when I stumbled across a poem I wrote many years ago. I
think
> I
> > was about 13 or so at the time, so it was before I really got into
> > conlanging. It's the sort of thing I really should translate into one
of
> my
> > conlangs, but none of them seem just right for it. If anyone else wants
> to
> > give it a try, please do so.
> >
> > Shadow and Dawn
> >
> > What thoughts have all the darkest hours seen
> > that strode across the mind upon the green?
> > When those that lay awake are lost at night,
> > the world goes to gloom removed from sight.
> > Yet from the shadows comes a gloried light,
> > the shadows cast on masses held in fright.
> > Their sorrows soon disperse in morning sun.
> > The siege hath gone, the dawn hath now begun.
> >