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Silence

The poem describes a silent valley filled with still trees on a bright day. The trees are loaded with green apples that glow dimly like lamps of stone. Their skins bear the faint shadows of leaves like ghosts of summers past. No sound is heard between the breathless hills. The thronged leaves hang motionless like dumb tongues gasping for air. On the ground lay big, still apples as if stunned, leaving a deep supernatural calm in the valley filled with dark, quiet, leaf-thick trees.

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Silence

The poem describes a silent valley filled with still trees on a bright day. The trees are loaded with green apples that glow dimly like lamps of stone. Their skins bear the faint shadows of leaves like ghosts of summers past. No sound is heard between the breathless hills. The thronged leaves hang motionless like dumb tongues gasping for air. On the ground lay big, still apples as if stunned, leaving a deep supernatural calm in the valley filled with dark, quiet, leaf-thick trees.

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Silence

By W.J. Turner
It was bright day and all the trees were still
In the deep valley, and the dim Sun glowed;
The clay in hard-baked fire along the hill
Leapt through dark trunks to apples green and gold,
Smooth, hard and cold, they shone like lamps of stone:
They were bright bubbles bursting from the trees,
Swollen and still among the dark green boughs;
On their bright skins the shadows of the leaves
Seemed the faint ghosts of summers long since gone,
Faint ghosts of ghosts, the dreams of ghostly eyes.
There was no sound between those breathless hills.
Only the dim Sun hung there, nothing moved;
The thronged, massed, crowded multitude of leaves
Hung like dumb tongues that loll and gasp for air:
The grass was thick and still, between the trees.
There were big apples lying on the ground,
Shining, quite still, as though they had been stunned
By some great violent spirit stalking through,
Leaving a deep and supernatural calm
Round a dead beetle upturned in a furrow.
A valley filled with dark, quiet, leaf-thick trees,
Loaded with green, cold, faintly shining suns;
And in the sky a great dim burning disc! Madness it is to watch these twisted trunks
And to see nothing move and hear no sound!
Let's make a noise, Hey!... Hey!... Hullo! Hullo!

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