Wondrous Words Wednesday

This week’s words come from a poem my mom and I read earlier in the week.

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Silver
by Walter de le Mare

Slowly, silently, now the moon
Walks the night in her silver shoon;
This way, and that, she peers, and sees
Silver fruit upon silver trees;
One by one the casements catch
Her beams beneath the silvery thatch;
Couched in his kennel, like a log,
With paws of sliver sleeps the dog;
From their shadowy cote the white breasts peep
Of doves in a silver-feathered sleep;
A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws, and silver eye,
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.

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1. Shoon
(n.)
Definition: a plural of shoe.

2. Casements
(n.)
Definition: a window sash that opens outward by means of hinges.

3. Couched
(v.)
Definition: to lie down; recline, as for rest.

4. Cote
(n.)
Definition: A small shed or shelter for sheep or birds.

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