The Late Swallow - by
Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
/ Late swallow, and fly away.
/ Here is no rest
/ For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
/ Your comrades all have…
Leave, leave your well-loved nest,
/ Late swallow, and fly away.
/ Here is no rest
/ For hollowing heart and wearying wing.
/ Your comrades all have…
End is in beginning;
/ And in beginning end:
/ Death is not loss, nor life winning;
/ But each and to each is friend.
/
/ The hands…
Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…
in memoriam Vicky Patterson
/
/ The bird that was trapped has flown
/ The sky that was grey is blue
/ The bone that was dead…
These young birches
/ shriek green laughter up the hill
/ billow on billow. They
/ stop as he enters. He
/ carries his promised absence
/ carefully and yes
/ he…
An honest man here lies at rest,
/ As e’er God with His image blest:
/ The friend of man, the friend of…
When this body comes to die,
/ Set me on the headland high,
/ Where sun and rain go marching by,
/ Raven lord of wave…
Under the wide and starry sky,
/ Dig the grave and let me die.
/ Glad did I live and gladly die,
/ …
Someone is waving a white handkerchief
/ from the train as it pulls out with a white
/ plume from the station and rumbles…
He went through a company like a lamplighter –
/ see the dull minds, one after another,
/ begin to glow, to shed
/ a beneficent…