lilac cottage by moonlight

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© 2011 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved ________________________________________________________________ In the door-yard fronting an old farm-house, near the white-wash’d palings, Stands the lilac bush, tall-growing, with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, With many a pointed blossom, rising, delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle……and from this bush in the door-yard, With delicate-color’d blossoms, and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig, with its flower, I break. ~ Walt Whitman, from 'When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d', published in 'Leaves of Grass' (1855)