Put out the lights now!
Look at the tree, the rough tree dazzled
In oriole plumes of flame,
Tinseled with twinkling frost fire,
Tasseled with stars and moons – the same
That yesterday hid in the spinney and had no fame
Till we put out the lights now.
Cecil Day Lewis
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