Merlin Poem

This is a poem about Merlin that is in the front of the book " The Crystal Cave". My Mom got it for me to read, and I love it so far.

By: Edwin Muir

• O Merlin in your crystal cave
• Deep in the diamond of the day
• Will there ever be a singer
• Whose smooth music will smooth away
• The furrow drawn by Adam's finger
• Across the meadow and the wave?
• Or a runner who'll outrun
• Man's long shadow driving on
• Burst through the gates of history
• And hang the apple on the tree
• Will your sorcery ever show
• The sleeping bride shut in her bower
• The day wreathed in its mound of snow
• And time locked in his tower?