Cambridge Poets 1900–1913

VICTOR B . NEUBURG . UNDER MAGDALEN BRIDGE . THE lapping, lapping, lapping of the stream 1 Makes songs around my lazy-light canoe ; The soft brown haze of dusk shines softly through The dripping trees, and the damp meadows seem A plateau as of lost desire , a dream That melts from gold to gray : a soft breeze blew Across the brow of waking night, and dew Re-bathes the earth that grows a fading gleam . The sleepy river ripples , ripples ever Betwixt the old brown wall and meadows trim ; The tideless song of Never , Never , Never Lulls the wet woods , and ever growing dim The fields are grey with mist , and slip away Into the darkness with the dying day . 147