From A. E. Houseman’s ‘A Shropshire Lad’
On Wenlock Edge the wood’s in trouble
His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;
The gale, it plies the saplings double,
And thick on Severn snow the leaves.
‘Twould blow like this through holt and hanger
When Uricon the city stood:
‘Tis the old wind in the old anger,
But then it threshed another wood.
Then, ’twas before [...]
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Wenlock Edge
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 20th 2012
