Re: Shadow and Dawn

I think "Shadow and Dawn" is so fine a poem, Jake, that Teonaht could never
do it justice.

Sally
scaves@frontiernet.net
Eskkoat ol ai sendran, rohsan nuehra celyil takrem bomai nakuo.
"My shadow follows me, putting strange, new roses into the world."



----- 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.
>

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