The Sleeping Beauty

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There was intoxication in the air;
 The wind, keen blowing from across the seas,
 O'er leagues of new-ploughed land and heathery leas,
Smelt of wild gorse whose gold flamed everywhere.
And undertone of song pulsed far and near,
 The soaring larks filled heaven with ecstasies,
 And, like a living clock among the trees,
The shouting cuckoo struck the time of year.

For now the Sun had found the earth once more,
 And woke the Sleeping Beauty with a kiss;
Who thrilled with light of love in every pore,
 Opened her flower-blue eyes, and looked in his.
Then all things felt life fluttering at their core-
 The world shook mystical in lambent bliss.

© Mathilde Blind