Dancing Dust
	Poems by Mollie Caird (1922-2000)
	"On such a night..."
Home Alphabetic index of poems Thematic index of poems Biography Gallery Contact and links	Our two lives are made one on such a night, Indistinguishable as the merge Where sea and sky across the glimmering verge Drift into the faded sunset's light. Only the seagulls ruffle with their flight The quiet, and make intermittent dirge Of restless crying down along the surge Flecking the undiscovered gloom with white. Our love has roused the moon above the hill, Startled a meteor, and reaped the crop Of faint white stars: our love has woven a ring Small in the heather-scented dark, until We know the straitened seas are but a drop, And all the isles a very little thing. The title is an often-used quotation from Virgil's Aenead in which Dido stands in the moonlight on the beach at Carthage waving her lover back from the wars with a wand of willow. Dated: August 1943.