Canvey Lights

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CANVEY LIGHTS
(Viewed from Hadleigh)

When mists shroud blue the Kentish shore,
When sapphire cloaks the leas,
Low Canvey, like a pool of lights
Floats on ethereal seas

While past it travel ship-shape stars
Both west and east, but slow –
A seamless canvas, pricked and pierced
Where tiny lanterns glow.

And all the mud and merchant lands
Deem vanished from my sight.
The twilight of a perfect day
Fades to a star-crossed night…