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J. Peterson Arras

WENT and walked by Arras

In the dim uncertain night;

I went and walked by Arras

In the dazzling noonday light;

First, I saw a fairy glamour—

Later, 'twas another sight.

Out by Arras in the night-time,

Star-shells in the starlit sky

Showered like wild silver raindrops

From a fountain scattered high,

Like the silver scales of fishes

In the tideway curving by.

Out by Arras in the night-time

There were glints of red and green

Like the glow of fairy camp-fires

In some hidden high wood seen,

Like the day-dawn of the night-land

Where no man has ever been.

Out by Arras in the day-time

There stretched broad the sun-parched sand 125