Vilhelm Ekelund - Then Were the Beeches Bright

Then were the beeches bright, then was the stream
strewn with white buttercup islands, swimming;
bright its crown, the bird cherry swung where as a boy I wandered—

Silently it rains. The sky hangs low on
thin crowns. A whistling—the train sets off
again. Into slowly darkening evening, I travel friendless.

Vilhelm Ekelund

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