David Lewis Paget Poems

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351.
Blake - (Before Birth) .

By field and by coppice
By tumbleweed and marigold,
Skipping at the butterflies
And chattering at the wood,
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352.
The Telegram

Darling girl, will you love me now
That I’ve left you far behind me,
I took the plane in the driving rain
And I doubt that you could find me,
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353.
Larkspur

Words roll free from a tongue sometime
From a sometime, tongue-tied tongue,
Words that were heard by the stream and the bird
When the world and the wild were young,
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354.
Chimneys Of Lime

I’ve walked at your ruins
To seek out your history,
Charted the runes of you
Stone upon stone,
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355.
Sea And Shore

‘Why do you tear at
My towers and my turrets,
My walls and my pillars
My barrs and my beach;
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356.
Aftermath

We overplayed and underplayed our parts
And paid the price; we went our separate ways
For me to think of you, and you of me
Some part of all our long and restless days.
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357.
Two Hundred Years After Cook

Would Cook, I wonder, ever have dreamt
Of seventeen eighty-eight,
Of convict ships and dismal cargoes
Rushing onward to their fate?
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358.
Half-Remembered

We touch things we see not
And know things we know not
And dream of sweet things that
We’ve not set in store,
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359.
One Word Swallowed

Ah! … Ah! … What is Man?
The sad slick-sliver of the long quicksand,
The flash-burst crackle of the lightning, forking
Or two young daughters of the evening, talking.
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360.
Raglan Roc

Raglan Roc was a Warlock, and
He lived up on Mandrake Hill,
Up where the witches gathered
Once a month, for a coven spell,
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