The Moth

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  Isled in the midnight air,
  Musked with the dark's faint bloom,
  Out into glooming and secret haunts
  The flame cries, 'Come!'

  Lovely in dye and fan,
  A-tremble in shimmering grace,
  A moth from her winter swoon
  Uplifts her face:

  Stares from her glamorous eyes;
  Wafts her on plumes like mist;
  In ecstasy swirls and sways
  To her strange tryst.

© Walter de la Mare