Poesy

Winter in Durnover Field

Rook.⁠—Throughout the field I find no grain;The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!Starling.⁠—Aye: patient pecking now is vainThroughout the field, I find . . .Rook.⁠—No grain!Pigeon.⁠—Nor will be, comrade, till it rain,Or genial thawings loose the lorn landThroughout the field.Rook.⁠—I find no grain:The cruel frost encrusts the cornland!

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