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C.D. Warner, et al., comp. The Library of the World’s Best Literature.
An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

The Yellow Moon

By Richard Henry Stoddard (1825–1903)

THE YELLOW MOON looks slantly down

Through seaward mists, upon the town;

And ghost-like there the moonshine falls

Between the dim and shadowy walls.

I see a crowd in every street,

But cannot hear their falling feet;

They float like clouds through shade and light,

And seem a portion of the Night.

The ships have lain for ages fled

Along the waters, dark and dead;

The dying waters wash no more

The long black line of spectral shore.

There is no life on land or sea,

Save in the quiet Moon and me;

Nor ours is true, but only seems,

Within some dead old World of Dreams.