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Coming Upon A Stone Circle at Sunset Old Birch trees, whose white branches weave and sift The brilliant evening twilight, huddle deep Around these circled stones. The old grove shifts As leaves and chilly breezes slightly lift And rustle. But these silent grey stones keep Their secrets: no wind reveals, no evening shade distills Why they stand, encircling each other, in these hills. With ancient reasons more astute than ours These stones were brought here, then precisely set. Each in its place. Time moves, things change, rains pour Suns rise and set, winter storms blow and roar, These, encircled, change not. Only men forget. And now we watch as deepened shadows show How much we've lost of what our fathers' fathers know.

Juleigh Howard-Hobson