moonlight

tehdä kuutamokeikkaa, tehdä keikkaa, tehdä sivutyötä

kuutamo, kuunvalo The light reflected from the Moon.Websters College Dictionary'', Random House, 2001
c. 1387, (w), w:Sir Thopas|The Tale of Sir Thopas in (w),http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2383/pg2383-images.html

His bridle as the sunne shone,

Or as the moonelight.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!

Here will we sit and let the sounds of music

Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night

Become the touches of sweet harmony.

(..) the sight of the blade which glistened by moonlight in his face, checked, in some sort, the ardour of his assailant (..)

She passed away noiselessly, and the moonlight kissed the wall which her shadow had dimmed.

The windows were curtainless, and the yellow moonlight, flooding in through the diamond panes, enabled one to see even colours, whilst it softened the wealth of dust which lay over all and disguised in some measure the ravages of time and the moth.

They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale thin ray of moonlight between.

It was as if a globe had been filled with moonlight and hung before them in a net woven of the glint of frosty stars.

If you will patiently dance in our round

And see our moonlight revels, go with us;

If not, shun me, and I will spare your haunts.

’Tis eight o’clock,—a clear March night,

The moon is up,—the sky is blue,

The owlet, in the moonlight air,

Shouts from nobody knows where;

It was the pensive oysterman that saw a lovely maid,

Upon a moonlight evening, a-sitting in the shade;

“(..) What say you, gentlemen, shall we have a moonlight hunt?”

Let’s go on a moonlight swim

Far away from the crowd

All alone upon the beach

Our lips and our arms

Close within each other’s reach

Will be on a moonlight swim

On a moonlight night it would be different. The happy voices of children playing in open fields would then be heard. And perhaps those not so young would be playing in pairs in less open places, and old men and women would remember their youth.