ATDDTA(11) Doubled Moon Rays [305:35-36]

[Keith]

[305:35-36] "a blurry crystal about the size of a pocket Bible
              but as thin as a nymph's mirror"

Excerpt from

The Wood-Nymph's Mirror (1891)
  by Charles Henry Lüders

Across the face of that fair glass
No shallop e'er has sought to pass;
Only the white throat of the deer
Divides its surface dark and clear,
Or breasts of wild fowl that from high
Blue pathways of autumnal sky
Slant earthward their slow-wearying wings
To try the coolness of its springs.

But fairest things refelcted are
In the nymph's mirror.  Many a star
Beholds therein its beauty.  Oft
The moon, unveiled, or wrapped in soft
Sky-tissues, paves a silver way
Or doubles her half-hidden ray,
While snowy cloud fleets, to and fro,
High o'er its dusky oval go.

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