C a r o l y n D a u g h t e r s

Shine on, O moon of summer.
Shine to the leaves of grass, catalpa and oak,
All silver under your rain to-night.

An Italian boy is sending songs to you to-night from an accordion.
A Polish boy is out with his best girl; they marry next month;
to-night they are throwing you kisses.

An old man next door is dreaming over a sheen that sits in a
cherry tree in his back yard.

The clocks say I must go—I stay here sitting on the back porch drinking
white thoughts you rain down.

Shine on, O moon,
Shake out more and more silver changes.

Thomas Ferril was a poet, essayist, columnist, and, with his wife Helen, a coeditor of The Rocky Mountain Herald from 1939 to 1972. Their home at 2123 Downing Street in Denver was host to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Thomas Wolfe, and many other literary greats. Ferril worked for the Great Western Sugar Company for 42 years as publicity and advertising manager while moonlighting as an award-winning poet.

Here is a land where life is written in Water
the West is where the Water was and is
Father and Son of old Mother and Daughter
Following Rivers up immensities
Of Range and Desert thirsting the Sundown ever
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