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Moon Mockery (1929)
by Robert Ervin Howard
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MOON MOCKERY

By Robert E. Howard

I walked in Tara's Wood one summer night,
And saw, amid the still, star-haunted skies,
A slender moon in silver mist arise,
And hover on the hill as if in fright.
Burning, I seized her veil and held her tight:
An instant all her glow was in my eyes;
Then she was gone, swift as a white bird flies,
And I went down the hill in opal light.

And soon I was aware, as down I came,
That all was strange and new on every side;
  Strange people went about me to and fro,
And when I spoke with trembling mine own name
They turned away, but one man said: "He died
  In Tara Wood, a hundred years ago."