Lunar Lore
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Instead of chatting with them in the dusk,
he wandered about the woods, whispering to the moon.
– “The Red Fairy Book” (1890).
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The shadowy hour melts into purple day ;
And, through Aurora’s fields of azure air,
The crimson stream of morning pours its way,
And tints the snow-clad hills with colors rare.
– Ernest Warburton Shurtleff, in the “Old Farmer’s Almanac” for 1911.
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Crops planted on the increase of the moon will surely flourish.
– Encyc. of Superstitions, Folklore & Occult Sciences of the World.
And, through Aurora’s fields of azure air,
The crimson stream of morning pours its way,
And tints the snow-clad hills with colors rare.
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– Encyc. of Superstitions, Folklore & Occult Sciences of the World.