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<l>Beauty of light and fog and dark,</l>
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Enchantments of the Middle Age

David Cecil 2019 University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Alex Telesca's Fame

306 Andrews University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE 68588-4100 alextelesca@outlook.com

2019

The Best Poems of 1924

L.A.G. Strong David Cecil November 1923 Small, Maynard & Company Publishers Boston

Alex Telesca Transcribed and encoded a poem Enchantments of the Middle Age LONDON is beautiful, I know Its sooty churches chalked with white, The quiet squares where plane-trees grow And lamplit street on rainy night. Beauty of light and fog and dark, And yet my heart within me turns To lands in woodcut books I mark, For missal lands my spirit yearns. Where everything is flat and bright With colors definite and clean, Where roads turn dazzlingly white Through forests square and neat and green. Where hunt the lords of seigneuries Whose curvèd hounds, unleashed to kill, Awake the columned silences With baying strangely thin and shrill. The little cities, twisted, tall, Stand up on hills more steep than high, Each red machicolated wall Seen clear against the clearer sky. Paved places where the cypresses Slant shadows through the noonday glare. And the springing brick-built belfries Make musical the evening air. Where ladies walk demure and fair In head-dresses with steeple crowns, Severe and stiff and angular, In diapered and colored gowns. Thus every day and firm and bright Shone beauty; by our modern eyes Seen only in the fitful light Of insubstantial ecstasies. David Cecil

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