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IX

TO K. de M.

A lover of the moorland bare
And honest country winds, you were;
The silver-skimming rain you took;
And loved the floodings of the brook,
Dew, frost and mountains, fire and seas,
Tumultuary silences,
Winds that in darkness fifed a tune,
And the high-riding, virgin moon.


And as the berry, pale and sharp,
Springs on some ditch's counterscarp
In our ungenial, native north—

You put your frosted wildings forth,