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By the light of the silvery moon

Created on: 05/27/10 01:26 PM Views: 4140 Replies: 3
By the light of the silvery moon
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 08:26 AM

Rider

Oh friend of mine
companion for all these years
while I ride on thru the night
you keep pace beside me
reflecting my heart yet falling on blind eyes
love cast upon you never to be
my shadow dances to a song unheard
oh friend of mine

sing to me

 

:unknown:

My friend of many a night just off the Gulf.

 
Edited 06/15/14 04:10 PM
RE: By the light of the silvery moon
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 08:29 AM

Though the night was made for loving
And the day returns too soon
Yet we'll go no more a-roving
By the light of the moon

-Byron
 

 
RE: By the light of the silvery moon
Posted Thursday, May 27, 2010 08:32 AM

Alone and Drinking Under the Moon
by Li Po
(701 - 762) Timeline

Original Language
Chinese
   
Taoist
8th Century

Amongst the flowers I
am alone with my pot of wine
drinking by myself; then lifting
my cup I asked the moon
to drink with me, its reflection
and mine in the wine cup, just
the three of us; then I sigh
for the moon cannot drink,
and my shadow goes emptily along
with me never saying a word;
with no other friends here, I can
but use these two for company;
in the time of happiness, I
too must be happy with all
around me; I sit and sing
and it is as if the moon
accompanies me; then if I
dance, it is my shadow that
dances along with me; while
still not drunk, I am glad
to make the moon and my shadow
into friends, but then when
I have drunk too much, we
all part; yet these are
friends I can always count on
these who have no emotion
whatsoever; I hope that one day
we three will meet again,
deep in the Milky Way.
 

 
RE: By the light of the silvery moon
Posted Tuesday, June 15, 2010 02:03 PM

Lionel wanted me to let you know how he felt when we went fishing in 97 degree heat:

Down dropt the breeze, the sails dropt down,
'Twas sad as sad could be;
And we did speak only to break
The silence of the sea!

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.

Water, water, every where,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, every where,
Nor any drop to drink.

[Lionel quoting Coleridge]

Butch

 
Edited 06/15/10 02:08 PM
 



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