BROWNS & BUFFS, GREENS & GREYS

Browns & buffs, greens & greys

Misty blues, purplish haze.

Oyster light, woolly white,

Muted winter’s colours fade.

Then suddenly the silvered sun

Emerges posing as full moon,

Then sails away behind deep drifts

Of denser cloud

Until its orange beams

Begin to blaze

And bursts its silver veil

With golden rays

And hangs resplendent in the evening sky

Suffusing every hedge & ditch

With friendly farewell’s gentle light

Before it plunges out of sight

And leaves us once more

To our night