ENOCH ARDEN.
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For Father Philip (as they call’d him) too:
Him, like the working bee in blossom-dust,
Blanch’d with his mill, they found; and saying to him
‘Come with us Father Philip’ he denied;
But when the children pluck’d at him to go,
He laugh’d, and yielded readily to their wish,
For was not Annie with them? and they went.
Him, like the working bee in blossom-dust,
Blanch’d with his mill, they found; and saying to him
‘Come with us Father Philip’ he denied;
But when the children pluck’d at him to go,
He laugh’d, and yielded readily to their wish,
For was not Annie with them? and they went.
But after scaling half the weary down,
Just where the prone edge of the wood began
To feather toward the hollow, all her force
Fail’d her; and sighing, ‘let me rest’ she said:
So Philip rested with her well-content;
While all the younger ones with jubilant cries
Broke from their elders, and tumultuously
Down thro’ the whitening hazels made a plunge
To the bottom, and dispersed, and bent or broke
The lithe reluctant boughs to tear away
Their tawny clusters, crying to each other
And calling, here and there, about the wood.
Just where the prone edge of the wood began
To feather toward the hollow, all her force
Fail’d her; and sighing, ‘let me rest’ she said:
So Philip rested with her well-content;
While all the younger ones with jubilant cries
Broke from their elders, and tumultuously
Down thro’ the whitening hazels made a plunge
To the bottom, and dispersed, and bent or broke
The lithe reluctant boughs to tear away
Their tawny clusters, crying to each other
And calling, here and there, about the wood.
