Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). The Old Huntsman and Other Poems. 1918.
51. Dryads
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In the dusk of the woods it is night:
The oak and the birch and the pine
War with the glimmer of light.
Move in the gloom of the glade;
When meadows are grey with the morn
Dim night in the wood has delayed.
Are faint and hollow and shrill:
Dryads brown as the leaf
Whisper, and hide, and are still.