The Green Roads Edward Thomas
Out in the Dark Cuff
“over the snow”
A wide cuff that keeps the peel and curl of silver-birch bark.
The Story
Thomas wrote "Out in the Dark" on Christmas Eve, 1916 — fallow deer crossing the snow, the whole universe of light set against the night. The cuff is cast from a strip of fallen silver-birch bark, the only white thing in a winter wood, its papery layers and dark lenticels surviving whole in bronze.
It is the boldest piece in the range: a single statement on the wrist, warm-patinated and brushed bright along the ridges. The opening lets it adjust to you, the way bark loosens from the tree.
The Poem
Out in the dark over the snow
The fallow fawns invisible go
With the fallow doe;
And the winds blow
Fast as the stars are slow.
Stealthily the dark haunts round
And, when a lamp goes, without sound
At a swifter bound
Than the swiftest hound,
Arrives, and all else is drowned;
And star and I and wind and deer
Are in the dark together, — near,
Yet far, — and fear
Drums on my ear
In that sage company drear.
How weak and little is the light,
All the universe of sight,
Love and delight,
Before the might,
If you love it not, of night.
Out in the Dark — Edward Thomas 1878–1917
Technical Details
- Material
- Bronze, hand-patinated
- Finish
- Warm patina, brushed peaks
- Dimensions
- 60 mm inner Ø × 24 mm wide
- Sizing
- Adjustable opening
- Cast from
- Silver-birch bark
Made to order in Kraków priced on request.
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